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Dan Čermák Mar 26

Love to see that Virgin UK/O2 have blacklisted "http://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html" (the URL Ffox uses to invoke a captive portal, such as the ones you have to clear in order to use public hotspots with Virgin as a provider). Also nice to see that they've copyrighted the error page.

@pluralistic I feel safer now.

Troed Sångberg Mar 26

@pluralistic Oh no. It's that dangerous category "Computers and Technology".

anecdote: When I worked at Sony Ericsson/Mobile back in the early 2000s we launched the Walkman and Cybershot phones specialized in music and photography respectively. At the same time the IT-department blocked the category "media" for the whole company.

Lots of testing happened at home.

Dave 🐶Mar 26

@troed @pluralistic Up next: VMO2's content filtering team blocking VMO2 services on VMO2's networks as they are also "Computers and Technology"

@troed @pluralistic
Sony Ericsson made some really nice kit back in the early 2000s. Occasionally I miss it, even now.

(My first Android smartphone was a SE.)

@troed @pluralistic damn I remember my rich classmates flaunting those when I was in like middle school

@pluralistic as a former virgin customer and current o2 customer (they’re the only one that still offers free eu roaming) I am surprised any time anything works because they display utter incompetence in everything they do. Example? You get a new phone and need to move your esim? Their procedure is the same as for a physical sim. You call them, they ship you a sim card through the post. Yes, it is just a QR code. No, there is no other way to receive it other than through the post.

@pluralistic oh but the iPhone automatically transfers your esim you say? Nope, that requires carrier support, and it fails. As for Virgin they installed my cable before I completed the purchase of my house, after reassuring me many times they wouldn’t show up before “moving date”. Activation still took so long that I got 1 month ADSL from a different provider after 1 month without broadband.

@illogical_me If you’re interested: Smarty and 1p Mobile include EU roaming (up to 12gb / month). I used both just a few days ago.

@geraint I am! Thanks!

@geraint the thing is … O2 gives up to 25GB/mo, but I don’t think they know how to measure it(again the incompetence thing…). The last time I was in Europe I didn’t have access to broadband for almost a whole month and I definitely used more than 25GB, no throttling, no warnings, no extra charges. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I consider it reparation for all the pain they inflicted on me…

@illogical_me Hah fair enough! I don’t use anywhere near that much, I’m mostly hopping onto WiFi whenever possible. I presume you can pay extra for more than the included 12gb.

@pluralistic vermin media

Bjoern Michaelsen Mar 26

@pluralistic
Good to see that these decisions are made by people who cant tell apart an URL from a domain.

Softwarewolf Mar 26

@pluralistic Nice.

I customized the captive detect page and response on my install to a personal page, but sometimes my domain still gets blocked for whatever corporate BS reasons.

@faoluin @pluralistic http://neverssl.com is the way. So far it hasn’t failed me on triggering captive portals on any network. ymmv.

Duncan Murray Mar 26

@pluralistic I think I changed my DNS server on Virgin because of these kind of issues. Also, you have reminded me when we were on Vodafone broadband, I noticed a MITM attack on all websites - did you ever hear about this? Their customer support encouraged users to accept their certificate, but I first noticed it when firefox alerted to me that the cert did not belong to the domain.

Duncan Murray Mar 26

@pluralistic found the forum entry, which has since been taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20170315031514/http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Pay-monthly-products-services/Website-security-certificate-coming-from-vodafone-content/td-p/2454980 maybe not such a big deal but it shows that these companies will lean on user ignorance to make their web experience insecure.

Website security certificate coming from vodafone content control even though it's off.

I'm using Vodafone home broadband and when i try to access the https version of imgur I get the following error from google chrome- Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from i.imgur.com when I go into the advanced info tab it tells me - This serv...

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@pluralistic Absolute clowns

@pluralistic ah yes, the most dangerous type of website... "Computers and Technology"

Zimbobble 🐟Mar 26

@pluralistic Taking protecting their Virginity very seriously