It's more than just privacy... -

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greenman join:2002-06-18 Athens, GA Reviews: ·AT&T Southeast	It's more than just privacy... Currently, when I go to: notarealsubsite.google.com using Charter services, I get this instead: »www11.charter.net/search?qo=nota···bHBjCBFr Google owns google.com and all subdomains thereof. Yet Charter has usurped the invalid (404) subdomain and served ads on it for it's own purposes. That's theft and trespassing. It's like Charter putting a billboard on Google's front lawn without asking. Likewise, they haven't paid me for the searchpage/ads that appear on my sites' subdomains for Charter's customers. Regardless of whether it's 404 they have not paid for the privilege. They are trespassing on my domain, diverting it for their own use and making money from it. This isn't just a privacy issue. Charter is cybersquatting on land it does not own. I will not have it. Get off my property, Charter. Until we've come to an agreement - which is highly unlikely - you have no rights to settle here. And now NebuAd is doing deep packet inspections. Are they going to stop with my browser history, or will they be deep-packet inspecting my voip and email as well? If it starts here, where will it end? Charter should be held to Common Carrier standards. Show what exists on my domains as they are - not with Charter ads - regardless of whether the subsite is 404. My browser history is mine alone. Likewise with email and voip. The 'opt-out' program is reverse from what it should be: Customers who actually want to 'participate' should have to go somewhere to sign up - not the reverse. I shouldn't have to keep a cookie on my system to protect myself from getting ads. It likely won't protect my browser history data from being culled even if I did 'opt out.' All it will 'protect' me from is seeing NebuAd placed ads. For a Common Carrier - Charter - to put the onus of privacy on me - the client - is a bit like the US Post Office expecting a trusted family member to sit shot-gun on the stage coach for all my correspondence that it delivers. I thought I was paying Charter to deliver a service with complete privacy and without prejudice. Charter gravely needs to reconsider this path of action.
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hottboiinnc ME join:2003-10-15 Cleveland, OH	What Charter did to that site is URL Redirection. lots of ISPs are doing that now. Its not uncommon. But if you don't like it change your DNS. Generally its their DNS that does that. Other wise don't use charter.
hottboiinnc ME join:2003-10-15 Cleveland, OH	to forum · permalink · 2008-05-19 18:30:00 ·
greenman join:2002-06-18 Athens, GA Reviews: ·AT&T Southeast	Make no mistake - this is not about _my_ personal settings - it's about everyone else who uses Charter's DNS's. Just changing _my_ DNS settings isn't enough. Most Charter clients are using Charter DNS's. I'm not getting paid for the privilege of the redirection they are doing of _my_ domains on _other_ people's computers. They are making profit from that redirection without my consent. As I said - it's like someone putting a shop on my front lawn without my permission. I gave them no such permission. That's trespassing and theft. That's illegal. Just blissfully setting my DNS elsewhere and ignoring the problem is only going to make me oblivious if they encroach further on my rights. This business practice is skating on class action retaliation. I don't want people camping on my property and selling tickets to come there without my permission and without my knowing it. Can I be any clearer?
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