After receiving huge criticism by its Airtel Zero plan, Bharti Airtel, an Indian multinational telecommunications services company, is now being accused of secretly injecting Javascripts, and iframes into the web browser in order to alter the browsing experience.
Thejesh GN, an info-activist and a programmer, published his findings on GitHub according to which Airtel is inserting Javascripts into user browsing sessions.
He said that the iframe tries to insert a toolbar into the browsing experience and that the parent URL of both the iframe and Javascript belongs to Bharti Airtel Bangalore.
He shared the injected script in Github. The script is trying to inject an iframe pointing to this url "hxxp://223.224.131.144:80/l8/Layer8Servlet".
However, Airtel has released a statement clarifying that it is building a tool to allow broadband users to get information about the amount of data they have used.
The company said that it developed new tool as non-mobile consumers demanded for easily tracking data usage while using surfing the web.
“Our customers have frequently asked us for ways of easily keeping a track of their data consumption specifically dongle and broadband users, who unlike mobile users, cannot receive real-time alerts on their usage,” Airtel said in a statement to NextBigWhat.
It is said that for an ISP, it is highly unethical to carry out such programs. However, no one has come up with any solution or anything.
In a reddit post, one of the users accused Vodafone of doing the same.
Just a month ago, a user posted the same issue in reddit.
In a reddit post, one of the users accused Vodafone of doing the same.
Just a month ago, a user posted the same issue in reddit.
