Cable Forum - View Single Post - Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

thebarron · 15-03-2008, 01:04

Hi, I've been following the debate with interest on here and other forums and thought I would give my two penniesworth.

I (part time) develop bespoke Web applications and test these on several flavours of browsers IE, Opera, Firefox - and I certainly would want to opt-out. So then with the currently proposed opt-out approach I would have to opt-out in all browsers on all machines, sounds like fun.

Also I do not see it being a big problem as a developer, to put a bit of script on a website that was using this 'Spyware' to marry up the 'Random (ish) number of the Phorm cookie and the IP address and header info of the browser requesting the page. So unless they have come up with a new way of communication over the Internet it does not seem too anonymous to me.

Default opt out which bypasses the Phorm system is the only civilised thing for any ISP to do. I just hope they do that.

Life is too short and there are far more interesting things to be doing. Fighting corperate EGO's and greed is not one of them.

15-03-2008, 01:04	#1227
thebarron Inactive Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bedford Services: VM 10mb, phone Posts: 52	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] Hi, I've been following the debate with interest on here and other forums and thought I would give my two penniesworth. I (part time) develop bespoke Web applications and test these on several flavours of browsers IE, Opera, Firefox - and I certainly would want to opt-out. So then with the currently proposed opt-out approach I would have to opt-out in all browsers on all machines, sounds like fun. Also I do not see it being a big problem as a developer, to put a bit of script on a website that was using this 'Spyware' to marry up the 'Random (ish) number of the Phorm cookie and the IP address and header info of the browser requesting the page. So unless they have come up with a new way of communication over the Internet it does not seem too anonymous to me. Default opt out which bypasses the Phorm system is the only civilised thing for any ISP to do. I just hope they do that. Life is too short and there are far more interesting things to be doing. Fighting corperate EGO's and greed is not one of them.