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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
Did someone say Sky are buying into this? Oh, bleep! My sister's changing her TV/broadband package from cable to Sky this week (though not because of all this), and I mentioned it. Her first question, unsurprisingly, was 'isn't that illegal?'
- well, isn't it?
But if Sky are doing it as well...much more of this and the smaller ISP fish aren't going to be so small any more.
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Sky have said they are looking into this as a possible revenue source. Sky make no money on their BB service at the moment, and anything that can add ££ per user/month has to be a tempting offer. You only have to look at their online portal content to see what kind of money they could make from targeted advertising.
I'd suggest though that this will take months. Virgin are already waiting to see what happens to BT/CPW (in terms of whether they make this an opt-in system, or provide a stronger opt-out that isn't just cookie based), their talks with Phorm are nothing more than that. Your sister should be safe to move to Sky.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
So are you saying that you have just linked me to a site that has placed a Phorm cookie on my PC without my permission or could have ?
Just shows how easy its going to be to be infected with this spyware from Virgin Media.
And before you say Its Phorm not Virgin Media, Its Virgin Media as the servers are going to be in Virgin Media's pop sites so its Virgin Media that will be infecting us with this spyware.
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So what is the opt-out cookie provided by Webwise?