They totally did. I used to be on Comcast and they did it all the time. There's a setting to turn it off, apparently, but I was never able to. I switched to FiO

They totally did. I used to be on Comcast and they did it all the time. There's a setting to turn it off, apparently, but I was never able to. I switched to FiOS fairly recently and it was the same. Any time I browse to an invalid URL, it went to the Verizon search capture page that I had to manually opt out. E.G. http://youtube.ff http://youtube.ff goes to http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/assist.php?url=youtube.ff http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/assist.php?url=youtube.f... They explain it in the DNS about page : http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/skins/verizon/en/about.html http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/skins/verizon/en/about.h... You have to go into the router to turn it off. http://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/fiosinternet/troubleshooting/network/questionsone/99147.htm http://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/fiosinte...