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 Registered Member #18 Joined: Mon Feb 25 2008, 06:31PMPosts: 39 | The peopel at Sophos clasifed teh adverts as - potentially unwanted. Phorm - potentially unwanted adverts? They say ...Sophos has already classified Webwise domains as domains that serve adverts and the users of Sophos Web Appliance WS1000 may choose to block them if they are concerned about their privacy. We will be closely monitoring the Phorm’s practices and we will reclassify the domains if we find that Phorm is being misused. And they say this on the cookie ....A worrying thing is that the information of every single page visited by the end user is accessed, inspected and classified by Phorm and the user’s browsing habits are tracked. Although Kent Ertegrul claims that no information is stored that is clearly not true. Cookies can be, with some effort, tracked to a particular browser (on a particular machine) and even to the actual user (or user’s ISP account) if the ISP’s systems get compromised. What disturbs even more is the fact that some trials have allegedly been conducted without the consent of end users during June 2007. This is a significant privacy problem, although not much worse than privacy leaks we are exposed to while browsing sites like Google or Amazon. This comes down to the question of trust. I will be more inclined to trust companies with good reputation such as Amazon than companies like Phorm whose practices are somewhat questionable and whose previous products included potentially unwanted applications. | ||
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| Registered Member #217 Joined: Tue Mar 18 2008, 02:59PMPosts: 24 | it is unwanted, the whole thing isnt wanted by us the consumer, its wanted by ISP's who have failed miserably to deliver a decent product. This whole mess is of the ISP making. They cant hold on to customers and to resort to having a spyware/adware company pay them for customer data is the actions of a desperate organisation. BT, Virgin and Talk Talk if you cannot/are not able to provision an acceptable service then you deserve to go out of business. [ Edited Fri Mar 21 2008, 11:10AM ] "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." | ||
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