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Free ISP a French ISP with approx. 5M subs has blocked, by default, all web
based advertisements being served to their fixed-line Internet subscribers. [1,
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As a consumer, I would be very happy about it. As a Internet neutrality
(whatever you
Hello everybody,
Just want to add some precisions :
- Not all web based advertisements are blocked. Blocking is done with a
blacklist of IP addresses.
- It is done on the CPE level, not in the core network of Free.
This story is quite shaking the french interwebs and i was like Bernard at
Of course, for my first post on this awesome mailing list, I had to do such a
silly mistake to invert opt-in and opt-out.
To sum up :
Acceptable with opt-out : No.
Acceptable with passive opt-in : No.
Acceptable with active opt-in : Yes.
By the way, I take a moment to introduce myself :
I'm
Salut Bernard ;)
According to the last news we got, it wouldn't be an IP blacklist but a
solution based on dnsmasq (running on the CPE aka Freebox).
We don't have any info on who is on the blacklist, but it's maintained by
Free itself with little doubt.
Oh sorry i wasn't clear ... Free's owner,
Am 03.01.2013 19:30, schrieb Julien Rabier:
My current state of mind is :
- Is it an acceptable net neutrality violation if it's done on an opt-out
basis ? Yes.
The question is at which level it took place. Client-side filtering is
generally no issue,
including issue related to default
