{"id":391,"date":"2011-08-04T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=391"},"modified":"2011-08-04T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T19:56:15","slug":"update-on-search-query-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/update-on-search-query-hijacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Search Query Hijacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2011\/01\/02\/my-net-neutrality-experience-frontier-hijacking-searches\/\">wrote about Frontier Communications hijacking<\/a> Google searches (and documented the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payne.org\/index.php\/Frontier_Search_Hijacking\">technical details<\/a>). \u00a0I wrote\u00a0Maggie Wilderotter, Frontier&#8217;s CEO. \u00a0I immediately heard back from her, and by May, her team asserted to me that they were no longer &#8220;proxying&#8221; queries. \u00a0I was disappointed Frontier was doing this in the first place, but impressed at how they followed up.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, New Scientist published an excellent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn20768-us-internet-providers-hijacking-users-search-queries.html\">article by Jim Giles<\/a> that outlines the hijacking business practice (and associated customer lawsuits) in much more detail. \u00a0 His article includes a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu\/\">tool developed at Berkeley<\/a> that screens your Internet connection for a variety of ISP manipulations. \u00a0If you&#8217;re suspecting your ISP, you should try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I wrote about Frontier Communications hijacking Google searches (and documented the technical details). \u00a0I wrote\u00a0Maggie Wilderotter, Frontier&#8217;s CEO. \u00a0I immediately heard back from her, and by May, her team asserted to me that they were no longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/update-on-search-query-hijacking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}