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Comcast is pure evil, but a necessary evil?

I live in an area dominated by Comcast.  Want the Internet?  Comcast, or the cool sounding Xfinity.  I have Comcast high speed internet service, and for years I use Comcast email.  I did cut the cord on all television, but that’s another story.

To get to my email login, I have to land on Xfininity’s splash page.  No way around it.  In the run up to the election, starting like, in 2018,  every window and tidbit of clickable links were Orange Man collusion, Orange Man pee pee, Orange Man stupid,  Chuck Todd says orange man bad,  Rachael Maddow says Orange Man Bad…..Every link, and in particular, in the 6 weeks up to election day.

Now?  Xfinity NBC Comcast (Universal?) has dropped everything except gotta forget about the election and watch our NBC Must See TV, with occasional references to the President Elect Biden, and oh yeah, did you know we’re all going to die from Covid?

Trump Out,  Biden In, according to our betters at Comcast NBC.  Like a switch.  As if they were saying to us,  “watch our dramas, go back to sleep”.

Will probably switch email servers,  just so I don’t have to view the Xfinity crap.  I do feel quite good, however, about my decision to drop all programming from Comcast Xfinity and save myself hundreds of dollars I used to spend on channels filled with stuff I never watch.

Maddening.

4 replies on “Comcast is pure evil, but a necessary evil?”

The consumer of anything except for a very short list of resources (potable water, for instance) decided how necessary it is.
Not having access to the 24/7 Stream of “News” (or some of what passes for entertainment these days) … a bad thing?

I’m lucky enough to live in the first place in the country to ever have cable and just about the only place that has multiple providers. That keeps the prices low and makes it easy to tell one to eff off and go to another. They know it and work to keep customers happy.
My cable has been internet only for about two years. Haven’t missed a thing.

I just watched a video where a guy living in nowheresville just got StarLink satellite Internet. Took him longer to fix the bracket to his roof than to get it up and running.

$500 for the dish, $100 a month. 10-20Mb UP and 50-100 Mb DOWN speeds. 30-50ms ping.

Bye bye Comcast.

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