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I mistyped the name of a Web site I wanted to visit today and found myself staring at a custom Comcast error page laden with advertising instead of the usual Firefox “site not found” page.  That’s right, Comcast has started hijacking its customers’ spelling errors and using them to make an extra buck off advertising.

If you’re a Comcast Internet customer and you try to visit a Web site that doesn’t exist, you’re likely to get sent to a page like the following:

Want to opt out?  Comcast makes you dig up your modem’s MAC address and submit that along with your email address.  I’m off to go look at my modem.