The ad injection thing is a recent change for even residential customers and it's pervasive. Forget Forbes.com: many sites recommended by Google Now have suddenly sprouted full screen buzzing ads with no close button.
Previously I avoided the worst of Comcast's shenanigans by running my own squid proxy plus a DNS resolver that pointed to Google as I already have an Android phone so it's not like my DNS searches are novel to Google.
The good news is (for now) you can just close the popup tab but since these popups could easily be malware adverts I've switched to firefox with ad blocking to regain control of my phone.
Next up will probably be tacking up a 24/7 VPN so I don't have to configure one on each device.
This is one of the strongest arguments I can think of for net neutrality.
Previously I avoided the worst of Comcast's shenanigans by running my own squid proxy plus a DNS resolver that pointed to Google as I already have an Android phone so it's not like my DNS searches are novel to Google.
The good news is (for now) you can just close the popup tab but since these popups could easily be malware adverts I've switched to firefox with ad blocking to regain control of my phone.
Next up will probably be tacking up a 24/7 VPN so I don't have to configure one on each device.
This is one of the strongest arguments I can think of for net neutrality.