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Dark_Jaguar
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8 years ago

How are you hijacking my web pages now?

I'm genuinely curious.  All my mailto links don't pull up my google web page as they should (and as I've specifically set up my browser and operating system to do).  They somehow get intercepted by Cox and redirect to your ISP provided e-mail, the one that no one in their right mind wants or even remembers they have.  Further, I get weird cox "alerts" inserted into the html of some web pages.  It actually broke a page I was attempting to pay a bill on resulting in an error and a $20 fine I had to pay in addition to my power company.  Suffice it to say I'm not happy about this.

What confuses me is I have set my router with both ipv4 and ipv6 versions of the google DNS.  By all rights you shouldn't even know what I'm requesting.  What sort of deep packet sniffing are you up to that lets you interfer in my data this way?

What I really want to say is KNOCK THIS OFF!  How do I opt out of these things?

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    Dark_Jaguar
    New Contributor
    8 years ago

    Good neeews everyone! It turns out this was entirely optional, but a tricky insert on Cox's page.  At some point when I logged in last time to pay my bill (really the only interaction I really want with you lately), they snuck a request to change a protocol handler into the page and I guess I stupidly clicked yes by mistake.  That's fixed, and I disabled the ability for pages to make such a request in my browser settings.  So that's half my problem solved.

    Now about those code injections.