I got this last night for the first time, probably because I type so few URLs into the brower (we use ie and forefox at home). You have to, in essence, find a website that does not exist (actually tough these days, since the big names like yahoo and google own the websites "near" theirs, like typing "yaho" instead of "yahoo". In techie terms, this is called a "
404 error". Also, there are phishing sites out there that prey on bad typists as well.
I found
this link about this very same thing - the verizon redirects - while typing to figure out what I had typed in the first place. Today at work, I remembered that a writer for an economics blog (his new updated one is
here) that I read daily
had the same problem and had to "opt out", but they made it pretty hard for him to do it.
I'm encountering the same problem. I have to click on
about this page (far right button), then click on the hi-speed user
opt-out link, and then
pick one of the linksys routers to figure out how to fix the issue - it's not a simple opt out thing and you really need to know a little about this stuff - I know enough that I can do it. But how many people can follow
this and then
this?
Labels: ad revenue, engineering, Linksys, net neutrality, verizon
