This morning, Rogers never showed for an appointment to fix our cable. Full details over on SharkBoy.ca.
While we were waiting, SharkBoy calls me over to see that his website wasn’t coming up. After a few manual tries, it worked. But not after seeing a couple Rogers/Yahoo search page result (none of which had his site listed…)
Today, Torontoist reports that this is a new feature! So Helpful! You don’t need to be told you’ve typed a URL in wrong from the server you were trying to reach, no. You need to see shitty ads and crap search results!
Thankfully Rogers subscribers can turn it off after jumping through a hoop or two:
One: type in this.sux.extremely into your browser. Just like that. Ta da! Rogers search page:
Two: Scroll down. You’ll see a little “What. The. Fuck. Is this?!” text link at the bottom. Click it:
Three: The next page, you’ll find another text link to turn it off:
The next error you get will be directed to a Rogers page, but weirdly (ironcially?) it displays an IE style error page with broken images. Funny to see on a Firefox browser. Ha. ha. ha.
Thanks Rogers! Eat diseased razor blades and gimme back my web, YOU STUPID DICKS
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Hahaha, that was the best “fuck you Rogers” ending I’ve seen (and I’ve seen lots). Thanks for the tip…this “feature” appears to be here in London too. This could actually be useful, but the very principle of hijacking my internet connection without even so much as advertising they’d do it is evil in so many ways. So no ad dollars for you, Rogers.
thanks for the tip. what have you heard about acanac?
oh, and to cheer you up, have something you’ve probably already seen.