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This is nothing new.. Rogers has been doing this for years in Canada already.. They use it to notify subscribers when they are approaching their bandwidth quo
by sbarre 14y ago
This is nothing new..
Rogers has been doing this for years in Canada already..
They use it to notify subscribers when they are approaching their bandwidth quota (75%) and then again when they hit 100%. You actually have to click a "I understand" button to have it not show up over and over.
- pyre 14y agoIf you go into your MyRogers account, they actually give you a log of when you've accepted these notices.
- kyrias 14y agoWell it's checking for Netscape 6 so who knows when this was originally written...
- rescripting 14y agoRogers also used to serve ads in place of an error message when a bad URL was requested. That was the final straw causing me to cancel my service with them and switch to Teksavvy.
- desigooner 14y agoSo did Comcast IIRC
- RKearney 14y agoI believe Comcast hijacked NXDOMAIN DNS replies and replaced them with their own IP address, causing every non-existant domain name to go to their search page you had to opt-out of.
- callahad 14y agoT-Mobile is currently doing this and does not allow for opt-out.
- pjscott 14y agoI'm pretty sure you can forcefully opt out by using a DNS server that isn't run by scumbags, like 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for Google Public DNS. I hear OpenDNS is similarly good.
- swinglock 14y agoNext up, hijacking DNS queries to external servers.
- cookiecaper 14y agoOpenDNS does the same thing these people are complaining about -- they wrap the missing domain in something like a search page that has their logo and custom ads on it.
- rescripting 14y agoOriginally I wrote a GreaseMonkey script to redirect me from their ad page to a Google search. At the time, it was better than nothing, but still not enough to keep me from dropping Rogers. YMMV, Last updated 2008: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30326 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30326
- bcj 14y agoShaw Cable (Canadian ISP) does this. I had never thought to look for an opt-out until reading this. Thanks.
- Achshar 14y agoThat's rediculous. Airtel in India also used to do this. Annoying as hell. Miss-type the domain and type all of it again.
- lgp171188 14y agoAfaik, Airtel still does it and people still put up with it. I think they do the usage % notification hijacking as well without understanding even a bit that that internet is a pipe and people use applications other than web browsers and protocols other than http.
- Achshar 14y agoYea I was not sure. I left them after their data cap for "high speed" "unlimited" internet cap was 3 gb per month. I can put up with js injection but ridiculous data caps are something I can't live with.
- rocky1138 14y agoFor me it was their really low bandwidth caps. Acanac ftw!
- rescripting 14y agoThat was reason #2. Going from a 60gb cap (which I'd often go over by about 20gb) to a 300gb cap actually saved me a lot of money because of overage charges.
- katbyte 14y agoHow do they do it? Inject into every page or just once you've exceeded the limits? (curious as i use rogers)