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by DanBC 4827 days ago
People don't stop their ISPs from tampering because they have a reasonable expectation that the ISP won't tamper.

But, now they've seen their ISP tampering those people might switch on encryption for their email, and everything else.

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That's an incredibly naive expectation. ISPs have been replacing error pages with their own search pages serving ads since the 90s.
Ah, yes, you're right. Sorry.

For what it's worth I was grumpy in those situations too. I wrote polite letters. Where possible I opted out.

But your point - this kind of this happens all the time, and has been going on for years, and noone is doing anything to stop it even though it's wrong - is taken.