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Yeah, but at least there haven't been any (high-profile) abuses, yet. Meanwhile Verizon and now Comcast have been caught tampering with their customers' traffic, and those are probably just the well-publicized cases. Maybe I am just blissfully unaware of VPNs' shenanigans.

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Cox injects HTML into your HTTP connections. I've recieved popups on pages saying they've spotted traffic from a botnet server over my connection, and that my computer may be infected. I talked to Cox support and they view it as a feature.

I saw that once, not sure how common it is because I surf without JS by default. http://www.cox.com/residential/support/internet/article.cox?...

Will happily cancel my service if it continues.

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