My theory is that I tripped some fraud detection software run by the advertisers, who would know their traffic was disappearing, who in turn notified comcast that my IP address was violating terms of service. All done by software, I doubt any human intervention took place. Not that they care that little old me doesn't see their ads, it's more bad actors trying to steal clicks or impressions or identifying information etc. Very hard to know the details unless you are a network engineer, it's not the kind of thing they want the public or the black hats to know.
But I'm sure it happened because I had the lowest tier comcast and a docsis 3.1 modem on fairly new cable plant. It was very solid. I could repeatably get my cable disabled just by turning on the pi-hole and waiting less than 15 minutes.
But I searched online and everyone else seems to be able to use them, so maybe it is me.
I believe you when you say your internet ceased working. Everything else seems to be conspiratorial reasoning without any clear evidence. No one likes Comcast, so people aren't covering for them. It's easy to make a configuration mistake - this just doesn't pass the smell test.
BMc2020|3 years ago
My theory is that I tripped some fraud detection software run by the advertisers, who would know their traffic was disappearing, who in turn notified comcast that my IP address was violating terms of service. All done by software, I doubt any human intervention took place. Not that they care that little old me doesn't see their ads, it's more bad actors trying to steal clicks or impressions or identifying information etc. Very hard to know the details unless you are a network engineer, it's not the kind of thing they want the public or the black hats to know.
But I'm sure it happened because I had the lowest tier comcast and a docsis 3.1 modem on fairly new cable plant. It was very solid. I could repeatably get my cable disabled just by turning on the pi-hole and waiting less than 15 minutes.
But I searched online and everyone else seems to be able to use them, so maybe it is me.
tesin|3 years ago