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		<title>Qwest Web.Help &#8230; Wtf?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was browsing the web, when I was suddenly stupified with a Qwest message in my web browser. Yes, I am a Qwest subscriber, but I (purposely) didn&#8217;t install any of their software. Apparently, when an internet request can&#8217;t be resolved (the domain doesn&#8217;t exist), Qwest wants to hijack the traffic and display &#8216;custom&#8217; alternatives [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was browsing the web, when I was suddenly stupified with a Qwest message in my web browser.  Yes, I am a Qwest subscriber, but I (purposely) didn&#8217;t install any of their software.  Apparently, when an internet request can&#8217;t be resolved (the domain doesn&#8217;t exist), Qwest wants to hijack the traffic and display &#8216;custom&#8217; alternatives provided by Yahoo Search.  It essentially destroyed any built-in browser behavior.  Both IE8 and Firefox give their own &#8216;custom search results&#8217; for mistyped (or search) urls, why add the ISP to this mix as well?  </p>
<p>This is completely preposterous &#8212; think of the implications this would have, both on the user experience and on automated scripts.  I was completely confused when I reached this &#8212; I was browsing the Google App Engine apps, and clicked on a mis-linked app, and was all of a sudden on a Qwest page.</p>
<p>The good news is: there is an opt out.  Unfortunately, it&#8217;s hidden several layers deep in the UI.  I recommend if you see this error message, you call Qwest and express to them your disapproval of this &#8216;service&#8217;.</p>
<p><a href="http://crapflingingmonkey.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/qwest1.jpg"><img src="http://crapflingingmonkey.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/qwest1.jpg" alt="" title="qwest1" width="300" height="193" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-20" /></a></p>
<p>See the image for the search page after I had &#8216;opted out&#8217;, and the request was pending (which having that, in itself, is pretty lame)</p>
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