4 ms·
As of 2 months ago Bell Canada has begun intercepting and modifying web traffic as well. Back in October, I started receiving notifications that said, “You've
by alister 11y ago
As of 2 months ago Bell Canada has begun intercepting and modifying web traffic as well.
Back in October, I started receiving notifications that said, “You've reached 50% of your Internet usage”. In the past these notifications would arrive by email or I could check my usage by logging into the Bell site, either of which is entirely acceptable. However, in October, these notifications began to appear embedded into web pages that I was browsing, specifically in web pages that don't belong to Bell and have nothing to do with Bell.
I don't care that they provide a way to disable this, or that somewhere in Bell’s terms and conditions I may have ostensibly agreed to this action. They shouldn't be doing this any more than the post office should be tearing open my letters to insert notices that they want me to see.
I wrote a complaint to Bell (and canceled my phone and Internet with them!) but they didn't reply. I also wrote to the CRTC and the Privacy Commissioner. The Privacy Commissioner said it's not in their jurisdiction. I'm still waiting to hear from the CRTC.
- Vexs 11y agoSuddenlink does the same thing-ish. Sometimes I get a popup that says "service outage incoming at XXX" at the top of the page- I ended up figuring out there was a checkbox for that sorta stuff in the account options tab. Similarly, it redirects non-websites to their own search engine that never seems to go away. (ex: igrj.43 redirects to http://search.suddenlink.net/index.php?origURL=http%3A//igrj.43/&r=&bc= http://search.suddenlink.net/index.php?origURL=http%3A//igrj...) Again, not terrible, but really invasive to my mind. As it stands, they're basically the only supplier near us (sub-rural texas), so I just got a VPN.
- gdwatson 11y agoIt's not unheard of for ISPs that typosquat the whole Internet like that to provide a second set of DNS servers that perform correctly for those who know how to use them. Mine does.
- hellbanner 11y agoWho's your ISP?
- gdwatson 11y agoCenturyLink
- lstamour 11y agoRogers does (did?) this too, though most people are now on their new "unlimited" plans so it hasn't been a concern recently. (Funny how unlimited plans also avoid zero-rating net neutrality concerns for first-party or partnered services...) Telus/Koodo wireless has a proxy that at one point back in 2012 was incompatible with Chrome's bandwidth saving features, at least back when I was testing in Canary. I was never able to follow up on said proxy after reporting the bug to Google, who got in touch with Telus, but ping times were at least 100ms higher in general than what Rogers Wireless was giving me for similar assets/signal strength.
- grecy 11y agoI recently quit working for a very-related telco in Canada after 4 years, and I was working on very-related systems to what you mention above. I assure you, complaining to the CRTC is the way to go. Each and every complaint is taken very seriously and will not be dropped. The CRTC takes their role very seriously. They function at the speed of molasses, but they do function