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Re:Comcast injecting JS by networked on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:36PM (#5482273)
How about creating /e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do on your server to notify Comcast users about what their internet service provider is doing? If people started doing that en masse it could bring attention to the problem and with enough publicity get Comcast to reconsider JS injection.

I don't really understand the point of this, either. Couldn't they starting redirecting users to a static page somewhere if there were a real need for a "critical and time sensitive" alert? If the supposed alerts aren't critical enough to justify doing that, use email, IM, RSS or twitter, or even build a custom notification notification app.

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Re:Comcast injecting JS by wizzard on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @07:08PM (#5482847)
How about putting a giant video file there? Or just embed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso (language)
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Re:Comcast injecting JS by somethingnew on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @07:42PM (#5482997)
I thought I was going to be rick rolled, but that's good too.
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Re:Comcast injecting JS by TheOsiris on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @06:15PM (#5482534)
Best idea ever! But, they'll probably prosecute who ever does it for some BS reason and sentence them to a term of 500 years
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Re:Comcast injecting JS by thomasvendetta on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @07:04PM (#5482830)
Dont forget a $70,000 fine.
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Re:Comcast injecting JS by SwellJoe on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @07:30PM (#5482949)
Per "violation". So, $70,000 times a a few million pageviews.
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Re:Comcast injecting JS by fnordfnordfnord on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @07:58PM (#5483096)
every 5000ms
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Re:Comcast injecting JS by anigbrowl on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @09:46PM (#5483660)
Of course the alternative is for comcast users to get together and sue the company for running malicious code on their machines.
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Re:Comcast injecting JS by film42 on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:04AM (#5484555)
Considering the way the handle their customers (myself being one of them), they honestly wouldn't care.
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Re:Comcast injecting JS by forgotAgain on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @06:53PM (#5482772)
Welcome to the Patriot era.
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Re:Comcast injecting JS by kevinburke on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @08:25PM (#5483247)
Google occasionally will do this to let users searching for Google requests know that their browsing experienced is compromised.
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