{"id":17569,"date":"2019-01-31T21:03:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T05:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17569"},"modified":"2019-01-31T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T05:03:22","slug":"comcast-adds-popups-to-web-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2019\/01\/31\/comcast-adds-popups-to-web-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast adds popups to web pages"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>For the past few days, I\u2019ve been getting what I assumed were random fake popup ads about Xfinity when I visit various web pages.<\/p>\r\n<p>But it turns out they weren\u2019t fake, and they weren\u2019t ads.<\/p>\r\n<p>Turns out there are two things I didn\u2019t know about my cable internet service:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>It\u2019s a limited data plan. If I use more than 1TB of data in a month, I get charged extra. (For details, see their <a href=\"https:\/\/dataplan.xfinity.com\/faq\/\">FAQ<\/a>.) This month, I used more than a terabyte because I backed up my whole computer to Backblaze.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Comcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20161123\/10554936126\/comcast-takes-heat-injecting-messages-into-internet-traffic.shtml\">can insert popups into web pages<\/a> that you view in your browser.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>I\u2019m surprised and perturbed by both of these things.<\/p>\r\n<p>In this particular case, my data overage came at the very end of the month, and they give two months of grace, so they\u2019re not charging me any extra. And I\u2019m probably unlikely to use a TB of data again. So the outcome for me is okay this time. But I\u2019m creeped out by Comcast inserting popups into web pages that I view. Especially because they look like fake ads to me, of a type that I\u2019ve seen many times before (and those ones were definitely fake).<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17570,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569\/revisions\/17570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}