Aug
27
AT&T Tries Injecting Extra Online Advertising Via Free Wi-Fi Hotspots
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Users browsing the web through one of AT&T’s WiFi hotspots recently may have noticed a few extra ads online.
The company was using its WiFi service to inject ads on top of those that websites already run, according to Stanford University computer science Ph.D. candidate and lawyer Jonathan Mayer, who said in a blog post that he’d discovered unusual ads while browsing the web at Washington Dulles International Airport on AT&T’s free WiFi.
“The web had sprouted ads,” he wrote in the blog post on Tuesday. “Lots of them, in places they didn’t belong …. Last I checked, Stanford doesn’t hawk fashion accessories or telecom service. And it definitely doesn’t run obnoxious ads that compel you to wait.”
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