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[melonf]

Is just me or have the ever noxious Maxnet just hijacked google.com?

They now insert a pop up advert and redirect to google.co.th

In case it matters I am using Maxnet Indy from Pattaya

[Johnxxx]

melonf, on 2009-05-29 18:08:41, said:

Is just me or have the ever noxious Maxnet just hijacked google.com?

They now insert a pop up advert and redirect to google.co.th

In case it matters I am using Maxnet Indy from Pattaya

Have to change my orignal post - you are right. They use Google for their ads. Did not see it because of my ad-blockers.

Edited by Johnxxx, 2009-05-29 18:23:19.

[PoorSucker]

Also gets get redirected to http://moviebuffet.m....th/google.html

The worst part is that I'm trying to reach finance.google.com
I get the popup and then redirected to www.google.co.th

Edited by PoorSucker, 2009-05-29 18:21:58.

[melonf]

Johnxxx, on 2009-05-29 18:15:29, said:

This has nothing to do with Maxnet. It is Google what gets on our nerves. It was like this before - they try to think. They just had a problem with their servers here for a while. You are in Thailand so you are looking for Thai results (and of course ads...). The latter is the most important. US ads in Thailand are not so useful... Enable cookies and set your language to English - save the preferences.

Seems a bit unlikely to be google, the pop up advert is for Maxnet Movie Buffet 99

Edited by melonf, 2009-05-29 18:22:34.

[Johnxxx]

melonf, on 2009-05-29 18:21:55, said:

Johnxxx, on 2009-05-29 18:15:29, said:

This has nothing to do with Maxnet. It is Google what gets on our nerves. It was like this before - they try to think. They just had a problem with their servers here for a while. You are in Thailand so you are looking for Thai results (and of course ads...). The latter is the most important. US ads in Thailand are not so useful... Enable cookies and set your language to English - save the preferences.

Seems a bit unlikely to be google, the pop up advert is for Maxnet Movie Buffet 99

I changed my message from before - you are right. My ad-blockers did not show the ?great? Maxnet ad.

[Veazer]

I disabled the ad blocker and i get them on every search done from the google search bar in firefox. This is totally inappropriate behavior for a paid service.

I'm going to notify google that Maxnet is trying to make it appear that google is inserting pop up ads into user searches.

This company gets worse by the day, my service is barely usable any more and now they are inserting ads into my browsing??

Even better, when i tried to find an address to contact them i found that their site uses flash for navigation (a major web design no no) and doesn't even work with flash player v10. I had to use a virtual machine just to get a contact address for these incompetent pricks.

I recommend everyone fires off an few angry emails to icare@ttt.co.th and ism@ttt.co.th.

</angry ranting>

[klikster]

Same result on Maxnet here in Cha am. I turned off the popup, but the $%^$# thing insists on defaulting to .co.th. I can't get to my webmaster tools. I can get to Adwords = https pages.

I wonder if this is happening on True or TOT?

ADDED: I tried to find a way to contact google but all I get is links to their forum, etc .. and those are on .com so it redirects.

Edited by klikster, 2009-05-29 18:57:18.

[jbhh]

same problem here!

Try to open google.com, then I
get redirected to http://moviebuffet.m....th/google.html, and then I
get redirected to http://www.google.co.th

Exactly the same thing happens when I click on the link "Go to Google.com" on google.co.th

Outrageous in my opinion, can't wait to see that happening when trying to open thaivisa.com

[llp]

They are shaping internet traffic and redirecting to their site which launches a popup.

Ex: google.com launches this popup moviebuffet.maxnet.co.th/google_splash.php

This is happening to other sites such as hotmail.com Some of my custom google toolbar search are broken as a result because of the redirection. IE and Firefox have popups blocked by default so they aren't going to get as much traffic as they hoped for. They might as well just redirect every url to their self promotion thing.

Here is a Thai thread about it:
tinyurl.com/thaimaxnet

Edited by llp, 2009-05-29 19:00:48.

[Veazer]

Holy shit, can this get any more ridiculous???

1) My email to maxnet tech support bounced back! i sent it to the address from their site, icare@ttt.co.th.

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This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

satitpa@ttt.co.th




Original-Recipient: rfc822;icare@ttt.co.th
Final-Recipient: rfc822;satitpa@ttt.co.th
Action: failed
Status: 5.2.2
X-Display-Name: Satit Panomvan

2) Closing the ads causes firefox to crash now.

[jbhh]

Veazer, on 2009-05-29 19:01:19, said:

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2) Closing the ads causes firefox to crash now.

Thank you for saying that, I wasn't sure if that was a pure coincidence or my computer or something.


I just had tech support on the line, guess what the guy said (who spoke perfect English)?

He said: "I can open google.com and also finance.google.com"

I said: "That's impossible"

He replied:"No, it's because I am not using maxnet"

[klikster]

jbhh, on 2009-05-29 19:07:52, said:

Veazer, on 2009-05-29 19:01:19, said:

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2) Closing the ads causes firefox to crash now.

Thank you for saying that, I wasn't sure if that was a pure coincidence or my computer or something.


I just had tech support on the line, guess what the guy said (who spoke perfect English)?

He said: "I can open google.com and also finance.google.com"

I said: "That's impossible"

He replied:"No, it's because I am not using maxnet"

[Veazer]

Now it has outright broken google! All searches just take me to the google home pages. No results at all any more.

[niller74]

What a joke...

EDIT: I bet you can circumvent this by using OpenDNS.

Edited by niller74, 2009-05-29 19:20:13.

[Hobgoblin]

This seems to be the topic du jour... I've been getting this for the last hour. I've already contacted phone support, but of course, they don't acknowledge there is any problem at all.

I've heard of internet providers redirecting traffic from illegal sites (censorship), but I've never heard of one redirecting traffic from the world's most popular site and using it to advertise some stupid promotion.

[hellavagi]

I was pretty pissed off when I got back home to see this was happening to me. I thought I caught a virus. Is this going to last? My google related tools don't work because of this crap.

[jbhh]

Hobgoblin, on 2009-05-29 19:19:39, said:

This seems to be the topic du jour... I've been getting this for the last hour. I've already contacted phone support, but of course, they don't acknowledge there is any problem at all.

I've heard of internet providers redirecting traffic from illegal sites (censorship), but I've never heard of one redirecting traffic from the world's most popular site and using it to advertise some stupid promotion.

The tech support I talked to said he had several calls already about this and is trying to get it sorted, but he is in a call center, the real admins are somewhere else, so he has to call them etc.

I told him that this will be in the news for sure, as there are many people who really need to use the google.com sites and subdomains etc for business and are crippled now because of this.

He said he will do all he can to get this sorted out.

TiT ffs


p.s. Johnxxx, you are wrong. maxnet hijacked google, just read my first post and you see what happens, or try yourself to open this link (if you got maxnet) http://finance.google.com

Edited by jbhh, 2009-05-29 19:24:46.

[klikster]

Also seeing this redirect at yahoo.com >> http://m.www.yahoo.com/

I have a feeling that maxnet is going to pay dearly for this

[surface]

Wow.

And just today Maxnet started advertising outside my condo as they finally have service here, and I was thinking about switching from True which has actually been VERY good to me. No way would I even consider it now.

I would have been going with Premier, anybody notice this with Premier or are you all on Indy?

[Veazer]

Hobgoblin, on 2009-05-29 19:19:39, said:

.. I've already contacted phone support, but of course, they don't acknowledge there is any problem at all....

I was just looking at the thai thread about this, Maxnet is denying it and telling customers that it caused by a virus on their machine.

[klikster]

Johnxxx, on 2009-05-29 19:21:27, said:

Veazer, on 2009-05-29 19:01:19, said:

Holy shit, can this get any more ridiculous???

1) My email to maxnet tech support bounced back! i sent it to the address from their site, icare@ttt.co.th.

Quote

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

satitpa@ttt.co.th




Original-Recipient: rfc822;icare@ttt.co.th
Final-Recipient: rfc822;satitpa@ttt.co.th
Action: failed
Status: 5.2.2
X-Display-Name: Satit Panomvan

2) Closing the ads causes firefox to crash now.

Use a good ad-blocker and set the filters yourself. I tried to answer to your text without ad-blocker - impossible. The site www.thaivisa.com would come pretty quick. BUT it connects to many adservers. It never loaded because it was waiting for the server pubads.g.doubleclick.net and waiting. If I put this scrap server into the adblock there is no waiting time. This is just one example. It is not Maxnet or TOT or True or whatever. I think some sites try to get too much money with every click... ThaiVisa should think about it...

I don't think you can blame this on TV .. and Maxnet does indeed seem to have created this problem.

[niller74]

Veazer, on 2009-05-29 19:26:40, said:

Hobgoblin, on 2009-05-29 19:19:39, said:

.. I've already contacted phone support, but of course, they don't acknowledge there is any problem at all....

I was just looking at the thai thread about this, Maxnet is denying it and telling customers that it caused by a virus on their machine.

Haha, that make it even more hilarious. Which company would ever admit to be infected by virus? These people are just so stupid they could not make up a better excuse.

[hellavagi]

Don't leave true. They are the best of the 3 major isp in my personal experience...I know since I have all three providers. I have premier and it is happening to me. And so far I don't see a difference in services or quality between premier and indy. Maxnet better pull that shit down so I can use my google again. My Yahoo is fine though.

[DrTuner]

I just reported maxnet's IP hijack to Google by using a ssh-tunneled proxy in order to avoid the redirect. Google's IP hijacking report pages can be found by searching "Report IP problems google" woth google itself. I suggest you do the same, as I'm sure folks at Google will have far more weight on the matter than individuals calling to maxnet's tech support and I reckon they will not be very happy by anybody degrading the level of their service.

[niller74]

DrTuner, on 2009-05-29 19:30:13, said:

I just reported maxnet's IP hijack to Google by using a ssh-tunneled proxy in order to avoid the redirect. Google's IP hijacking report pages can be found by searching "Report IP problems google" woth google itself. I suggest you do the same, as I'm sure folks at Google will have far more weight on the matter than individuals calling to maxnet's tech support and I reckon they will not be very happy by anybody degrading the level of their service.

Agree!