On: Entering Public Beta

[Someone1234]

They still do that, they haven't be sued, and they haven't lost. One of those articles is from May this year. And as far as I know they're still injecting trackers into the HTTP headers of mobile traffic to this day. It is opt out.

[pjbrunet → Someone1234]

Yes they have been sued. I'm only responding because I'm getting more downvotes.

This isn't the best example, just the first thing I found in Google http://www.zdnet.com/article/nebuad-isps-named-in-class-acti... they settled for 2.4 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NebuAd#Class_action_lawsuit

I'm not going to waste my Friday night looking up old lawsuits to save a few HN reputation points. But I can tell you, I remember first reading about this stuff ~1999 when ISPs wanted to get their content in front of the Internet, but I don't remember the exact details. I've been following Boardwatch, WIRED, Techdirt, Digg, Slashdot, TechMeme and TechCrunch since then and consider myself relatively informed. I thought we were beyond this by now, 15 years later, but apparently I was wrong!