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This idea is absolutely not innovative. A couple of years back VeriSign tried this crap on *.com and got called out, loudly, harshly and correctly, for messing
by anonymouz 14y ago
This idea is absolutely not innovative. A couple of years back VeriSign tried this crap on *.com and got called out, loudly, harshly and correctly, for messing with basic infrastructure.
The idea that replacing sensible error messages by worthless ad-portals is somehow innovative is ridiculous, and granting a patent for it would be even more so.
I am very happy that this company died. This is one technology that is not "innovative and disruptive", but merely disruptive, namely, disrupting the basic working of the Internet. It is a pity that taxpayer money was spent on it.
Edit: It was VeriSign not Verizon.
- Spoom 14y agoI was under the impression that this was the contractor that put together VeriSign Site Finder. Where else has this sort of thing happened?
- anonymouz 14y agoCould be, but I couldn't find any information linking them to Site Finder. At present they seem to be running this on the ISP level, but the article claims they have previously done this "deeper" in the network. I don't know any details, unfortunately.
- Angostura 14y agoVirginMedia in the UK has it enabled. You have to opt out