It's just running over a non-encrypted connection, nothing to worry about in this context. You're not sending or receiving any data that matters. If it were your bank or email or something it...
It's just running over a non-encrypted connection, nothing to worry about in this context. You're not sending or receiving any data that matters. If it were your bank or email or something it would be of some concern, but it's just some dude's blog from a decade ago.
edit: if you want, the actual posts are on PC Gamer's site which does have encryption.
Sure, https is nice for many reasons and I'm all for using it whenever possible - but when you don't need encryption to secure sensitive data then it's not that big a worry if it's not there...
Sure, https is nice for many reasons and I'm all for using it whenever possible - but when you don't need encryption to secure sensitive data then it's not that big a worry if it's not there occasionally. Seeing some ads is not the end of the world.
Googling around it seems like it’s not illegal, at least not in the jurisdiction of the offending ISPs in the first example of complaints I found (India I think). They were injecting ads into...
Googling around it seems like it’s not illegal, at least not in the jurisdiction of the offending ISPs in the first example of complaints I found (India I think). They were injecting ads into pages. Some other ISP was using this technique to send payment reminders.
I remember seeing this in the Very Old Days of free ("free", hah) dial-up internet in the UK. You'd get all your websites forced into a frame with sometimes multiple top and bottom ads, and the...
I remember seeing this in the Very Old Days of free ("free", hah) dial-up internet in the UK. You'd get all your websites forced into a frame with sometimes multiple top and bottom ads, and the pages would be full of injected spamcrap as well. Also popups. Dead god the popups.
When the choice was that or no internet at all, and you'd just moved from university halls where the fibre was free and lightning fast (a blistering50Mbps, shared between hundreds of people!), you lived with the assault on your eyeballs and RAM. All the while counting the hours until your proper paid account was set up.
Brave browser is telling me that this website is insecure.
It's just running over a non-encrypted connection, nothing to worry about in this context. You're not sending or receiving any data that matters. If it were your bank or email or something it would be of some concern, but it's just some dude's blog from a decade ago.
edit: if you want, the actual posts are on PC Gamer's site which does have encryption.
Although scummy ISPs have been known to inject their own content into unencrypted web pages. Even a boring old blog can benefit from HTTPS.
Sure, https is nice for many reasons and I'm all for using it whenever possible - but when you don't need encryption to secure sensitive data then it's not that big a worry if it's not there occasionally. Seeing some ads is not the end of the world.
What the actual fuck? That's gotta be illegal or something, right?
Googling around it seems like it’s not illegal, at least not in the jurisdiction of the offending ISPs in the first example of complaints I found (India I think). They were injecting ads into pages. Some other ISP was using this technique to send payment reminders.
I remember seeing this in the Very Old Days of free ("free", hah) dial-up internet in the UK. You'd get all your websites forced into a frame with sometimes multiple top and bottom ads, and the pages would be full of injected spamcrap as well. Also popups. Dead god the popups.
When the choice was that or no internet at all, and you'd just moved from university halls where the fibre was free and lightning fast (a blistering 50Mbps, shared between hundreds of people!), you lived with the assault on your eyeballs and RAM. All the while counting the hours until your proper paid account was set up.