God damn idiots.

Oh Billy, it gets even better!

Charter Communications, one of the nation's largest ISPs, plans to begin eavesdropping on the web surfing of its customers, in order to help web advertisers deliver targeted ads.

It's a really sad day when I'm happy about having Comcast at home. Like, a downright fucking devastating day. Being a pansy about bittorrent doesn't seem that bad in comparison to having madison ave's version of the NSA trying to place ads based on my porn surfing habits.

"Browsing the web can become more like flipping through your favorite magazine, where you see ads that are appealing to you and enhance your enjoyment and the utility of the experience," the company's letters read.

Charter's system appears to be similar to a targeted advertising system in the U.K. developed by Phorm, a London company with alleged spyware roots.

He described the system as capable of noticing when a user visits Honda.com or Toyota's website, for example, so that when the user visits unrelated sites, he or she will be treated to automotive-related ads.

Charter is partnering with a company called NebuAD to build profiles of its users. NebuAD will share the behavioral tracking results with third-party advertising networks like DoubleClick. Users can opt out of the system, but have to give their full name and address to get an opt-out cookie. The process would have to be repeated for every browser on every computer in a home to block the service, and would have to be reset if cookies are ever deleted.

That sounds like some great IP transit you got there... Do you think you'll see ads for lawyers after owning someone's webapp? That would be rad.

Remember Billy, when driving through the Internet Ghetto, put the windows up, radio off, and seats down.

RE: Charter fucks with DNS