BSNL Broadband is randomly redirecting users to their webmail service‽

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I have a bsnl connection too and no ads since 1st April 2016. If however I encounter anything I will post it.
 
That's some good news for me, Nishant and Neo. I just ordered my broadband from BSNL. I really wish, there are no ads on it.
 
@pothi There won't be any ads on it , People who don't even have BSNL Broadband are mostly saying the negative things here. Btw which plan did you opt for?
 
Mmm. Bsnl admits in RTI responses that they are indeed injecting ads on their broadband platform.
 
Neo8 said:
@pothi Btw which plan did you opt for?
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I am on 1445 (Upto 2 Mbps till 20 GB, 1 Mbps beyond 20 GB). I asked for VDSL plans. JTO said that I am the first to ask VDSL plan here. So, they need time to test it. They don't even have a VDSL modem to test it out themselves. So, he asked me to choose an ADSL plan and wait for a month. He was very helpful when I was using BSNL two years ago. Fortunately, he got promoted and moved to the place where I live now (Srivilliputhur). So, probably, I will be on a VDSL plan in a month, assuming everything goes according to the plan.
 

// Bsnl admits in RTI responses that they are indeed injecting ads on their broadband platform.

I read it too. Probably, they stopped showing ads now. Btw, are you "Sushubh" who took RTI initiative?
 
yup. i am no longer a bsnl user. but my cousin who lives here in gurgaon confirmed that ads are still being served on bsnl connections in my city.
 
Been a BSNL user for about 8 years. Apart from a few hiccups I get due to technical issues etc., I have never experienced any ads injected while I'm browsing or downloading anything.

I do get redirected to mail.bsnl.in once in a while but other than that I have no issues while browsing.
 
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: mail.bsnl.in
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36
DNT: 1
Referer: https://geforce.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Cookie: _ga=GA1.2.1****8***3.146****039


I got the above detail using Packet Editor Named Software. Anyone Who Can Inspect it? Bsnl may be using cookie to invoke on re-connection to redirect to their mail service.

Edited: I have Tried Deleting Cookies But still Its redirecting.

Note: Added '*' in Cookie name for security Purpose.
 
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