Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 20-04-2008, 18:50   #4222
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by dallan View Post
Hi, I'm a new poster to this forum, although I have been following it for some weeks, ever since the BT forums stopped being helpful.

I find the amount of effort put into this topic amazing, thank you.

I hope you don't mind the perspective of a frustrated and worried BT user in your discussions.

One aspect (as a BT ADSL+ user) bothers me: - ignoring cable connections, which are available only in urban areas, there are 5592 internet-providing exchanges in the UK. Of these 3756 or 67% have no LLU services, in other words internet users have no option but BT for high speed connections. (Info from samknows.com)

All these users are totally dependent on an opt-in solution (or a complete retreat) to avoid being malphormed. I am one of them.

As I understand it we cannot block Webwise or we will get no service, so if webmasters see blocking BT as an option, the users of 3756 exchanges will be denied access to their sites. I am sure BT are aware of this.

It must be in the interests of these users that your campaign to stop Phorm in its tracks succeeds. Strength to your bow.

Please let me know if I have misinterpreted anything.

Dave
Well the ISPs using BT Wholesale products should not be affected. The system BT are planning to deploy is for the BT retail side of things only. There would be an ISP revolution if BT started to force this technology at the BT Wholesale level.

Alexander Hanff

---------- Post added at 18:50 ---------- Previous post was at 18:42 ----------

Speaking of BT. Has anyone seen their latest TV commercial? They are pushing the whole idea of protecting children from malicious websites so that parents don't need to worry about supervising them. This is bad from the perspective that they will use the Webwise "anti-phishing" system to promote this but it is also good in that regarding the questions about child consent over the past couple of days; BT are indicating that parents don't need to supervise their children online because BT makes it safe, so it weakens any argument about parental responsibility with regards age of consent.

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