Timothy Hoogland » opendns http://www.timothyhoogland.com IT Professional Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:14:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comcast Using DNS for Ad Redirection http://www.timothyhoogland.com/2010/02/10/comcast-using-dns-for-ad-redirection http://www.timothyhoogland.com/2010/02/10/comcast-using-dns-for-ad-redirection#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:00:09 +0000 Timothy Hoogland http://www.timothyhoogland.com/?p=130 So at home we have a Comcast Cable Internet connection. Lately I have been getting redirected to a “Comcast Search Page”. Now you’re probably thinking “Well that because you mistyped a URL”. Actually it’s not. About 25% of the time that I do a search term on Google.com the Comcast Search page comes up. And on this page it does have search results but it also has tons and tons of ads on it BEFORE the acutal search results. Why would Comcast do this? Profit! Everytime you get that page the advertisers have to pay a fee for that page impression. But let’s face it the real reason they did this is to take advantage of the average computer user like your grandmother who has no idea what to click on and what not to. This is a very shady and low thing to do to your customers Comcast. I have personally removed Comcast’s DNS servers from my router (I usually do before this BS just because they suck so much) and I now use OpenDNS.org and Google.com for my DNS servers. If you want to know how to do this so that Comcast doesn’t make money off your back check out OpenDNS.org.

What is to stop them from redirecting the websites that they feel are unfit for their customers? When will there be some regulation on what ISP’s can do to the traffic that is going through their networks? This is crazy that I have to use a third party DNS provider so that I do not get bombarded with ads and scams for a service that I PAY FOR! What ever happened to net neutrality? I just hope this doesn’t fall upon deaf ears.

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