Small Internet service providers (ISPs) in the U.S. have been earning extra cash off clueless users through malicious DNS servers that adjust data inflight using third-party proxies. These servers secretly interrupt and redirect search queries or mistyped URLs -- usually brand names -- that are entered on a Web browser’s address bar. Users are taken directly to the brand’s webpage, bypassing the customary Web search results page.

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