[Hidden-tech] Web URL hijack

[ussailis at shaysnet.com]

Hey, I have just seen that, and does it %^&*me off!!

I have thought of writing to Mr. Big at Verizon. No sense calling, those
folks don't speak very much English...Once I asked about the weather in
Mumbi (sp?). I put the person off-guard, and was told the weather there!  

What can be done about it? I receive enough ads. Does Comcast do the same
thing?

Jim Ussailis

 

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From: Charles Uchu Strader charles at gaiahost.coop
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:09:17 -0500
To: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Web URL hijack


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I wonder if your URL hijack issue has to do with Verizon's new "service":

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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