Courtyard Marriott in Times Square is Spying on and Manipulating your Internet

This is a repost of this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804608

You should follow the guideline to post the source not from the news site.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Lots of places do this if they have free wi-fi. I think Denver Airport does it (or used to). The Portland city wi-fi thing used to do it. It's annoying, but they have to make a load of cash rather than actually just charging me a few bucks, amirite?

I'd pay $2 to not have to deal with the hassle those ads cause. Easily. And that'd surely be more money than they're making off of me with them.

Wouldn't just using HTTPS avoid this?

yes, Ghostery (firefox plugin) might stop it also.