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Is Your ISP Inserting Ads Into The Pages You View?

Posted by on Jul 24, 2007 | 4 Comments

There’s something to be said for editorial integrity. And something else to be said about Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that unscrupulously insert their own advertisements into the Web pages that you view.

Hate spyware? Hate adware? Here’s something new to hate…

ISPs and advertisers that don’t know their bounds.

Thankfully, the University of Washington Security and Privacy Research Group and the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkley, California have built a “measurement infrastructure” to determine if your ISP is plastering its own ads on your favorite sites.

When you visit the UW CSE and ICSI Web Integrity Checker, you’re participating in an experiment that tracks modified Web content.

Score a big one for the good folks in the white hats.

And in allegedly related news, Adzilla has just scored a $10 million dollar first round of funding, for guess what…

[tags]spyware, adware[/tags]

  • John Lemke

    I beg to differ. Have you ever seen a professional sound studio master with headphones? Have you ever seen a mastering studio with out speakers?

    You should master music louder than most would listen to it. This is because, as volume decreases, our ears hear less of the low end and high end. most people listen at about 70 – 75 dB… mastering should be done at 85 dB.

    This prevents your mastered audio from falling flat should a listener listen at a lower volume. Do a little reading on Fletcher-Munson equal loudness curve and you will better understand why i beg to differ.

  • http://chrisdenman.co Chris Denman

    Mixing, let alone Mastering your own songs is usually a big mistake. Having the 2nd pair of ears AND the right equipment/skillset is greatly beneficial. (not always the most affordable unfortunately) The only plus to working in headphones is the fact that you don’t need a space that is properly acoustically treated. Creating an environment that reproduces an accurate image acoustically is not an easy task in most homes that have small to medium sized rooms with parallel walls. I do agree with Brandon 100% when he mentions listening on multiple speakers/setups. You cannot A/B your mixes/masters enough. What sounds good on one system may sound like absolute garbage on the next. This is why the Yamaha NS10 monitors have become the standard. They are fairly flat and bland sounding, but if you can get your audio sounding good on them, they will most likely sound good on anything. I highly recommend checking out Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science by Bob Katz. It is probably the best book on mastering you can find.

  • http://twitter.com/Cirric Ric Shanahan

    Back when most people heard most of their music through their car’s AM radio and speakers crummy by today’s standards the better producers used to use AM radio-type equalization and not the best speakers for mastering.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, you’re an idiot. Straight up. 

    “Beats by Dr. Dre are pretty popular. Any of the very popular headphones that you think people are going to be using to listen to your track are a good choice for mastering.”
    Really?…Realllly???