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ISPs have their own DNS servers they could use to those block ads, ie. a network-wide Pihole. Paying the Spotify for Adblock fee could get you access to the "premium" DNS server…

by andyfilms1 · Nov 5, 2026

Comcast and/or verizon did it in the 2010s, there was an opt-out in the account dashboard. It's sort of an absurd question, the prevalence of such things by ISPs was the li…

by breakwaterlabs · Nov 5, 2026

ISPs talk to each other, and people move jobs between them. It's not a uniform community but you certainly get a sense of the general spread of opinions after a while. There are…

by eqvinox · Nov 5, 2026

I speak for another RIPE NCC member when I say that that ideology is limited to a very small minority. Even outside ideology, plain business sense makes ISPs not want to deal wi…

by eqvinox · Nov 5, 2026

If you're a UK ISP owner, you're almost certainly a RIPE NCC member, given the UK is within its regional scope. Therefore, you've probably spoken to other RIPE NCC members via m…

by mqwdojhv5 · Nov 5, 2026

There were certainly a number of ISPs in the UK that tested ways to inject ads in content in the 2000s, there was quite a hoo-hah about it in some forums. That was usually by mo…

by dspillett · Nov 5, 2026