[Hidden-tech] Web URL hijack

[Fred Levine]

This isn't just happening with FIOS. I just switched to Verizon DSL, and I'm
getting a Verizon-branded error page.


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> I wonder if your URL hijack issue has to do with Verizon's new "service":
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> Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results
> Web search "tinkering" raises net neutrality concerns
> 
> by Martin H. Bosworth
> ConsumerAffairs.Com
> 
> November 3, 2007
> 
> Subscribers to Verizon's high-powered fiber-optic Internet service
> (FiOS) are reporting that when they mistype a Web site address, they get
> redirected to Verizon's own search engine page -- even if they don't
> have Verizon's search page set as their default...
> 
> link: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/verizon_search.html
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