That's how I read it too. You are assuming you would catch it, and know what is causing it... Might be subtle enough that it just looks like an google ranked ad. (I would probably not notice, as I tend to always vpn back to home servers and vpn back for even general internet traffic despite the extra delay...)
Not to mention, google tends to switch most searching to https if you ever used any sort of google account on the computer before. Of course ssl can be disabled for google searches, as many schools started blocking google because of incompatibility with content filters... and child protection laws trump privacy issues, so google had to put in a disable option or be completely blocked... Still, google displays a pretty clear note when that happens. Personally, I wouldn't mind my searches being slightly modified if it meant free internet instead of the $5+/night they might otherwise charge per room. If there was a room charge for internet, they best not be messing with it in such a way... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Z" <aar...@pls-net.org> To: "OpenWrt Development List" <openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org> Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 11:56:46 AM Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Looking for Openwrt programmers to customize Open-Mesh router code "Paul Fertser" <fercer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brian Epstein <br...@deepbluecommunications.com> writes: > > Assuming Gold’s Gym is now the official Gym sponsor for all Wyndham > > hotels. Now for example when anyone searches for the word “Gym” or > > “step class” on Google.com at any Super8 from behind our equipment, > > the search is modified prior to being sent to Google.com such that > > the search now says “step class golds gym”. > > Am I reading that right that when somebody wants to send a search > query to Google you hijack it and modify however you want? Seriously? That's how I read it. If that happened to me on a "free" hotel internet connection (which I am paying for with my room charge), I would NOT stay at that hotel again (I would leave after that night if possible) and (at minimum) the following people would be informed why I left: The hotel manager, corporate headquarters (if the hotel was part of a chain), my friends who keep up with me on various social media sites, Google Maps and any other place that I could find online that did reviews on that hotel, anyone who asked me about my trip. If I am on a public network, most anything important is running back home over a OpenVPN or connecting via HTTPS, but messing with guests searches will only lose you goodwill... Aaron Z _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
