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Originally Posted by OF1975
A few minutes ago I took the decision to post to an american health forum I frequent regarding the issue of Phorm as we know that Phorm are in negotiations with AT&T, Comcast & Verizon to roll out webwise or something similar over there.
I doubt what I have done in this instance will have much effect on Phorm at all but given the nature of the sensitive health discussions that take place there I thought I should give them a heads-up warning so that they can consider at the very least changing over to HTTPS. I gave them links to both badphorm and also to the NYTimes article.
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I have told the members of a UK based arthritis charity forum that I'm a member of, and I've also informed the HQ as to the implications the Phorm technology could have. I'm worried that despite the fact you have to be a member to use the forum, once you're logged in Phorm would be able to see everything.
Last week I wrote to all 3 leaders of the main political parties and so far I've only had a reply from David Cameron's office. I'll keep you posted on any other replies I get from the other people/organisations I have written to.
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Originally Posted by Bobcat
I have a small sort of 'techie' question. I have blocked cookies on FF for every variation of Phorm and Webwise including OIX I can think of in .com and .net, inside out and upside down (so to speak). I don't seem to be able to do that in IE. I can block cookies for the very basic s of the names but not f'rinstance with www. prefixes or with bt.webwise combinations. Any answers gratefully accepted.
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I don't know if this site might help Bobcat, but it may be worth a look
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/cookies.htm
Also has a nice bit of info on adware cookies too,