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

This entry was written by Jeffrey, posted on March 9, 2008 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.

2 Comments

  1. Jason
    Posted March 12, 2008 at 22:13 | Permalink

    OpenDNS is extremely fast too.

  2. Jeffrey
    Posted March 13, 2008 at 0:22 | Permalink

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

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