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Um, is this something that is always injected? I have comcast and I don't see it in any pages.

I'm guessing this is their clever way of reminding you to pay the bill when you're late?

Pay your bill or they'll stuff ugly JavaScript in your browser, you've been warned!

It's right there near the top....

You have reached 90% of your <b>monthly data usage allowance</b>.

Nope, I don't have it. Are you Canadian? Maybe it's a Canada thing? Doing it to tell you about your data allowance is a bit excessive, for sure.

Comcast is not available in Canada.

You don't have what? Comcast had a data cap nationwide (250GB/mo) even if you weren't aware of it. They temporarily stopped enforcing it outside of two test markets (Nashville and Tucson) where they're working out exactly what limits people will put up with. You wouldn't see this popup unless you live there and you've used over 225GB this month.

Thanks for the explanation.

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