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The header and people's reactions makes it seem Comcast will just do this on a whim as if it's inspecting the page you visit and deciding on the page to display
by Jach 11y ago
The header and people's reactions makes it seem Comcast will just do this on a whim as if it's inspecting the page you visit and deciding on the page to display the warning or not. If you read the screenshot, it's just a notice that someone filed a complaint against your IP, and Comcast is alerting you via email, maybe phone, maybe even a letter, and now your web browser. One might argue whether it's better they redirect you to a Comcast Message Page on their own domain one time. One might argue that this is a "feature" on the level of Comcast DNS servers that "helpfully" forward your bad domains to a search engine instead of giving a proper server not found response.
Don't want to receive these messages from Comcast? Don't seed your torrents.
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- Sir_Cmpwn 11y agoYou're missing the point. Injecting scripts into HTML delivered through your ISP for any purpose is grossly abusive on the part of Comcast.
- virtuallynathan 11y agoThis is correct. It is only performed after you are sent emails, letters, phone calls, etc. We do the same for when you are about to exceed your 300GB of data. Most people don't give us a good email, don't login to check it, don't login to their comcast account, etc... This type of notification is to cover those people. We are working on better ways to do this, see: https://www.caida.org/workshops/aims/1503/slides/aims1503_bauer1.pdf https://www.caida.org/workshops/aims/1503/slides/aims1503_ba... This system is well documented: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108 I'll bring up the idea of an opt-out for users that DO check their mail, email, phone, comcast account, etc...
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoSo, you work for Comcast? May I ask what it is you do there?
- virtuallynathan 11y agoInternet Services engineering, mainly working on measurement, instrumentation, and customer experience. My group runs our Speed Test, SpeedExperience, Next-gen access trials, our RIPE Atlas probes/anchors, etc..
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoThanks for responding. As frustrated as I get with the business side of Comcast, the engineering side has to be pretty interesting.
- johnmaguire2013 11y agoWhichever team is behind the account system needs work. Why do I have four Comcast accounts? I've only even lived at three different places. Why can I still login and "pay my bill" which still says I owe "$39.99" on my last account? I was paying into it accidentally for months before they killed my new service because I wasn't paying into the new account. It seems to me it's just hacks on top of hacks written by hacks.
- FireBeyond 11y agoYes! This happened to me too! I moved to a new house, they configured service and "transferred" my account. Three months later, my service at the new house is disconnected for non-payment. I look at my bank statement - sure enough, AutoPay happily withdrawing the amount... ... and applying it to the old house's (disconnected) cable, the account for which is now several hundred dollars in "credit" (paying $200/mo for business service). It was (relatively) easy to get resolved, thanks largely I think to the business support folks. But still... :|
- chestervonwinch 11y agoThis comment is the only real explanation of what's going on here. I'm not sure why it's buried. It seems people are just reading the headline and breaking out the pitchforks and torches. I understand the issues of privacy here, but it also seems the context in which this is taking place is an important thing to consider, as well.
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- ddingus 11y agoYou mean don't seed infringing torrents, right? :)