Friday, December 11, 2015

Block Comcast Xfinity data cap popup

If you have recently been converted to the Comcast data cap market you will have 2 months to continue getting unlimited data before being charged any overages.

The problem is that you will see html injection popups on any site that is not https:// encrypted.

These cannot be blocked via a hosts file/dns/bind filter. It's generated from http://servicealerts.comcast.net:8080/


While, it's nice they are giving us a couple of months before actually charging, you have to suffer through popups for every 90%, 100%, 110%, 125% usage threshold and up.

To block these, in Adblock, manually edit your filters to include:

##*#comcast_content

If you are curious, the code looks like this: