Ralph Shao

Necessary evil, but I freaking hate Comcast

I let the cable guy use my computer to set up the internet yesterday and returned to find no less than 30 bookmarks for Comcast shit that I will never use. If I had any other options, I wouldn’t have gotten Comcast again. They are the scum of the earth in terms of their stance on net neutrality.

Now, as a web developer, I have no less than 4 (you could even consider it to be 5) different browsers installed on my computer: Firefox, Safari, Chrome, RockMelt, and Aurora (which is technically Firefox again).

Comcast (or Xfinity; stupid name) decided that it would install a folder into every single one of my bookmark toolbars with 10 sites each. Luckily, they are stupid and don’t recognize all browsers, so I just got hit with Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. My RockMelt was left delightfully untouched.

However, I am now wondering what other malicious shit Comcast has piggybacked onto my system…

2 September 2011 ·