Is Road Runner snooping my internet?

Surfing the web a few minutes ago, I accidentally typed in a URL incorrectly. Instead of a normal 404-not found error page, lo and behold, I got this Road Runner Internet “Website Suggestions” page. What’s going on here? Is Road Runner really snooping my web traffic that aggressively? This is the first time I’ve seen this on my own internet connection, although I’ve heard of it before. Anyone else gotten this? How much information are they collecting on me? Also, here’s links to their FAQ page linked from the “suggestions” page. Finally, after reading a few forums on the issues, I found OpenDNS – a DNS server service alternative to your ISP’s DNS server (Road Runner, in my case). Looks nifty.  (Click screenshot for bigger)

Roadrunner Website Suggestions

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This entry was written by Jeffrey, posted on 2008/03/09 at 21:44, filed under Opinion, Trends and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. Jason
    Posted 2008/03/12 at 22:13 | Permalink

    OpenDNS is extremely fast too.

  2. Jeffrey
    Posted 2008/03/13 at 00:22 | Permalink

    Thanks for the support… I’ll give it a try.. it will hopefully work wonders on my WRT-54GL and DD-WRT

  3. Punq
    Posted 2009/10/09 at 20:51 | Permalink

    I’m confused that you recommend Open DNS as an alternative when they also provides URL suggestions by default

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