What first world ISP does this?

It's not worth it to them precisely because the vast majority of web traffic is served over HTTPS. You can bet they would these days if most traffic was HTTP

Comcast.

If you can call them a first world ISP ;)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-jav...

That was on free Xfnity Wifi. They got called out for it.

Yes. You got the answer to your question. You’re welcome ;)

I wonder if you could roll your own VPN tunnel that directly connects to your home internet IP and passes custom encrypted payload that your IT department cannot decode. Would they just drop the connection if they can't inspect what your are sending?

The issue is that they control the device he is using, so they could simply verify it on device.

> Update 2023-11-05 Yeah, I've got an LE cert now. And I don't want to talk about it.

Please do tell. I'm curious what forced him to join The Borg.

I guess it's legal because Spotify is a private subscription service and does not use public airwaves like radio so Payola rules do not apply.

Perfect! It has option to download original yt audio format without transcoding to mp3.

My CPU was at 27% (i3-4130) and 27 watts power use vs. 11w at idle. Added uBlock filter: github.com##div.signup-stars and CPU was back to 1%. Background stars animation is the culprit.