by ThatsAFreeThinker

Here's the post in question.

I'm not sure if this is the best subreddit for this, but this morning I was trying to browse to http://news.ycombinator.com/[1] but instead of going there, I was redirected to another site which told me I could order a new modem for faster internet... I couldn't go to any website until I clicked "continue", the ad would show up each time. Here's a screen shot [2] I've seen things like this happen if I connect to wifi at a hotel or the airport. It will sometimes make you accept their terms or enter a credit card to connect to the internet. I have never seen it happen on my home internet connection. DNS servers in my router are (TWC servers): 209.18.47.61 209.18.47.62 My router is my own Linksys. Cable modem is TWC's property. It happened on my phone, so I wasn't able to look into it too deeply, but my original hunch was their DNS servers were responding with a different IP than what I was requesting, however I think in that case my browser would have kept the URL I was trying to go to, and wouldn't have changed. How do you guys think they did this? This is more of a message, but will we start seeing real advertisements like this on a regular basis? (I try to go to http://mygrande.com/[3] (a competitor in Austin) and they show me a special offer for TWC) Is this no big deal, and I should just ignore it?