Re: Virgin Media Ad Deal - Would you be opting out?
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What was is I saw in a thread a few days ago about internet privacy?? Although, having said that, I got FF secured as tight as I can make it, in the past 3 years, I have never seen ANY adds or popups at all thanks to ff & the extensions! You can bet your life I will be checking my cookies a number of times a day to make sure no such rubbish is stored on my computer. I actually thought that it was illegal to track internet usage & to serve up ads, weather or not they are relevant? When VM do this, I will be straight on the phone to them and they will have ANOTHER unhappy chappy on their line giving them what for! EDIT: If I want to check something out, I google it and then browse through the results, I have never once clicked an ad or anything that has popped up, I dont care how damn relevant it is, if I want to buy any product, I will go to a reputable (re)seller, I dont go flagrantly clicking links just because it has something that MIGHT interest me! |
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If that's the case, your choice of browser will be irrelevant. Also, if you think blocking popups/ads will help, comcast have, I believe, been doing a lot of work in html rewriting, so they may just be able to embed the ad in your page regardless (as comcast did). |
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I'll be opting out asap.
I can't believe that with all the data privacy laws and such that VM can get away with this. If the police etc were collecting data on a suspect, possibly linked to criminal activity, wouldn't they need a warrant to monitor their web traffic? How is it different, just because it is 'advertising'? It's still snooping. |
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Be interesting to see if the DPA applies. Mr Angry would probably know this, but I think the Data Protection Act would apply if any personally identifiable data is passed to the other company from Virgin (I don't know if this ID number they are planning to use would be counted as personal data, as it would be tied indirectly to you).
For the record, if I used Virgin for broadband, I would either be expecting some sort of compensation for this data I am helpfully providing them, or cancel my account. ---------- Post added at 18:29 ---------- Previous post was at 18:27 ---------- Quote:
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Re: Virgin Media Ad Deal - Would you be opting out?
Well from what i have seen here so far they will have to allow me 1 of the following.
Opt out Disconnect VIRGIN what will it be ? |
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Apparently you can switch it on and off at will
http://www.phorm.com/ How it works: *Ntl gives phorm a random number and the web page you are looking *Phorm gives NTl the relevant ad together with the number *NTl pops the ads on your screen, they know your IP as it is associated with the random number returned by Phorm |
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http://www.phorm.com/about/faq.php?_...6,17,18,19#isp
http://webwise.com/ NOTE that Virgin Media are missing from that website |
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Boy i bet this thread grows pretty dam fast |
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From what I've just read there, it isn't so clear Quote:
Have I got the wrong end of the stick? |
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http://www.phorm.com/isp_partners/ |
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Why should I have to opt out. I should have to opt in :mad:
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Lets face it. This is another shafting from Virgin |
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