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> (Verizon and Comcast hijack domain misspellings to redirect to their search pages)

What?! Thought only OpenDNS (and similar services) did that bullshit, and in their case I can understand. In the case of an ISP... you're paying them already!



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 goes to 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.h...

You have to go into the router to turn it off. http://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/fiosinte...




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