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Re: Comcast injecting JS

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Post by readme »

fletchowns wrote: post #55
readme wrote: post #52

Um, is this something that is always injected? I have comcast and I don't see it in any pages. I'm guessing this is their clever way of reminding you to pay the bill when you're late? Pay your bill or they'll stuff ugly JavaScript in your browser, you've been warned!

It's right there near the top.... You have reached 90% of your monthly data usage allowance .

Nope, I don't have it. Are you Canadian? Maybe it's a Canada thing? Doing it to tell you about your data allowance is a bit excessive, for sure.

Re: Comcast injecting JS

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Post by warfangle »

drdaeman wrote: post #42
icholy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They should redirect to a notification page. Injecting js is unacceptable.

This is a still intrusion in others communications. I wonder isn't there any law in US that forbids carriers from fiddling with messages?

Cable companies, IIRC, aren't common carriers the same way a phone company is. They aren't regulated by the FCC the same way phone companies/tv broadcasters are.

They can do pretty much whatever they want to.

Re: Comcast injecting JS

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Post by mrb »

This is just one more reason for using HTTPS everywhere. Doing so prevents ISPs from intercepting and rewriting HTTP traffic.

Shame on you, Comcast.

Re: Comcast injecting JS

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Post by STRML »

tonyb wrote: post #57

This is probably part of their "Web Notifcation System". They have a published RFC talking about how it works (RFC6108). Using that system they can selectively notify customers. Like if they detect your system is infected with a virus. Or warn you your service will be discontinued if you don't pay your bill. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108

Look at all the work that went into that RFC. Unbelievable that they couldn't get a half-decent developer to verify that the notification is coded well enough to even show properly.

Re: Comcast injecting JS

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Post by nano111 »

pmorici wrote: post #37

Comcast is such an incompetent company. I tried to sign up for service once and they charged me ten bucks to ship me two coax cables yet I was never able to get my service activated because I mistakenly thought my place was hooked up to cable when it wasn't and when I tried to call to correct this and schedule an installation I kept getting put on hold for a half hour before being given a message saying there was an…

after 2 weeks, 3 techs coming to my house,5 chat conversations and multiple phone calls I finally have service... I don't really like this legal monopoly for cable companies... I would switch to ATT but right now they are about twice the cost...

Re: Comcast injecting JS

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Post by Pent »

readme wrote: post #61
fletchowns wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's right there near the top.... You have reached 90% of your monthly data usage allowance .

Nope, I don't have it. Are you Canadian? Maybe it's a Canada thing? Doing it to tell you about your data allowance is a bit excessive, for sure.

Comcast is not available in Canada.

Re: Comcast injecting JS

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Post by coolsunglasses »

Diamons wrote: post #29
brokentone wrote: post #2

I'm getting a lot of requests on our servers for "/e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do" so I can confirm this is in production. I can also confirm they suck at JS.

I'm assuming you mean the browser detection using useragent right? What's the better way of doing it?

Feature detection, to start.
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