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points by nunez 2 days ago | 0 comments

AT&T in the US does this. Traditionally they did this so that failed lookups were routed to their search engine, which of course fed users ads.

[–] sli 15 hours ago

Verizon/Frontier was doing this for a while, too. I would regularly get some shitty Frontier search results page instead of what I was looking for, even when the URL I was visiting was working fine on my phone.

[–] hansvm 2 days ago

At least they no longer insert ads straight into web pages. Thank goodness for https.

[–] jihadjihad 2 days ago

Does anyone know if T-Mobile does this too? I'm considering moving fiber to them instead of AT&T, but have stayed mostly due to "better the devil you know..."

[–] nunez 1 day ago

They don't at least on cellular. Home Internet; not sure.