Another Company to Avoid: Belkin

Belkin Routers, according to the Register, are now redirecting some HTTP requests from their owner’s networks to an advertisement for Belkin’s censorware/parental control software. You can opt-out, but it’s still pretty nasty.

Read the original news.admin.net-abuse.email post here, and the follow-up, from the Belkin marketing droid, here. His position seems to be “but you can turn it off!” Uh, right. Routers are supposed to route data, not hijaak my packets so you can advertise at me.

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