Most Comcast customers now have a 1TB home internet data cap (theverge.com) 6 points by ohazi 9y ago ↗ HN
[–] ohazi 9y ago ↗ Particularly egregious:> To notify customers, the company will use in-browser, email, and text notifications starting at the 50 percent point.(emphasis mine)I'm assuming this is via some sort of injection over unencrypted HTTP? [–] dylz 9y ago ↗ You will get scripts and arbitarary JS evals appended onto your pages.Injected inline; sometimes your DNS resolutinos might be hijacked to resolve to a comcast IP afaik [–] wmf 9y ago ↗ ISPs resort to this stuff because there is no standard protocol for ISPs to notify their customers of anything.
[–] dylz 9y ago ↗ You will get scripts and arbitarary JS evals appended onto your pages.Injected inline; sometimes your DNS resolutinos might be hijacked to resolve to a comcast IP afaik
[–] wmf 9y ago ↗ ISPs resort to this stuff because there is no standard protocol for ISPs to notify their customers of anything.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 23.8 ms ] thread> To notify customers, the company will use in-browser, email, and text notifications starting at the 50 percent point.
(emphasis mine)
I'm assuming this is via some sort of injection over unencrypted HTTP?
Injected inline; sometimes your DNS resolutinos might be hijacked to resolve to a comcast IP afaik