Charter Communications has announced that it will no longer be attempting to target advertising based on user actions. The original strategy would have involved inspecting the contents of every packet sent or received by the customer. This usage pattern is associated with a specific IP and relevant ads are displayed on sites using NebuAd when that IP visits. NebuAd doesn't directly share the IP, … [Read more...]
Charter screwing with DNS
May 12, 2008 By 35 Comments
Charter Communications seems to be pulling some sort of crap with their DNS servers. While working on a new project our friend Billy Hoffman, discovered that Charter was reporting absolutely every domain as resolving. They do offer a solution by providing an opt-out cookie, which isn't useful at all if you're not using a web browser... and I'm guessing most of Charter's subscribers aren't looking … [Read more...]
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