Canadian ISP tests injecting content into web pages
I can’t believe it. It’s been a bad month for Canadians. Rogers is testing a system that lets them embed content on any website they want, that is being navigated to on their network. Essentially users will get a nice little box of goodies telling them they’ve almost reached their bandwidth limit. Great, right? WRONG! What’s next? Ads for rogers, ad campaigns based on statistics gathered from this embedded code? Who the hell do they think they are? I can’t wait to get the hell away from rogers. As soon as my plan is done for my cellphone I’m getting the hell out of there. I hope you all do the same. Rogers can go to hell.
From a web designers perspective, I’m screwed. I’m going to be getting calls non stop from clients asking me why this is on their website, and how I can remove it. Great. They won’t take no for an answer, and I’ll be left with a big freakin headache that can’t be rectified. Dear god, please someone with money sue them out of this practice. Google? Microsoft? Apple? ANYONE? We need some real politicians with balls that will stand up against this shit. Yeah, I’m looking at you Mr. Minister, if you want my vote in the next election grow a set of balls. You can read the article here
