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by tzahola 3052 days ago
I don't know if it's true, but I've heard that some ISPs route your entire traffic through their machines. They even have access to your IP packets. Very shady!
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ISP's intercepting HTTP traffic to modify it is far from unheard of. In the best case, this is to notify customers of required changes. This is actually used by comcast [1]. In the worst case, this is a service sold to advertisers, or a service that includes arbitrary java-script injection. For something close to the worst case, see [2] (previously discussed on HN [3]).

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108

[2] https://defplex.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/how-a-south-african...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15423393

Why on Earth would you visit plain HTTP sites with JavaScript enabled?
Because you have to be in the know-how and do work to achieve that?
you're so late to the party. verizon even adds tracking cookies to your outgoing http requests