Rogers ISP of Canada breaks into your browsing session to tell you off for using the net too much. ⇒
11 December 2007, mid-morning
I feel sorry for people who are still using Rogers to get on the net.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
I guess that does seem a bit crazy but if you are using the net alot it is helpful to know that you are hovering close to your bounds. I’d hate to get a bill from rogers saying I owe them 10 extra dollars for using the net too much.
What ISP do you use again?
by Krishna on December 11 2007, 3:13 pm #
They have your email address, they can email you if they care so much. Or call. Injecting data into the pages you are browsing isn’t that cool.
And I use Teksavvy, the best ISP on the planet.
by Ramanan on December 11 2007, 3:18 pm #
I’ve been using Rogers. Our whole house is rigged up on a wireless network. I’ve never gotten one of these warnings, which I guess is reassuring.
by Matt on December 11 2007, 4:31 pm #
It sounds like you’d have to be downloading crap loads of stuff before you’d see something like this. What would be more interesting — well maybe interesting isn’t the word — is if they started using this service to inject ads into web pages.
by Ramanan on December 11 2007, 4:48 pm #
They only have my rogers email address which I never use. Do you use any of the email accounts given to you by teksavvy. If it comes up once or twice that is fine but if its coming up all the time then its annoying.
by Krishna on December 12 2007, 12:01 am #
Actually, thinking more about this overnight, this is probably even less of a privacy invasion or data sniffing than I originally thought. I asked how I would do something like this and the first thing that came to mind was a browser add-in that went to Rogers and checked my quota and expanded itself into a big message when it saw I was near a threshold.
by Patrick Wong on December 13 2007, 1:03 pm #