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Originally Posted by Florence
I have noticed one webdesigner is desparate to stop phorm phishing his website and going as far as gathering IP banks fro BT to block them all from his webspace using .htaccess he is plannig on doing the same with Talktalk and VM.
This is drastic action but as he says his website has pages that ppl login on and he doesn't want anyone piggy backing on the members connectioin reading the pages.
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The stuff I have read from BT states that Webwise/Phorm will NOT be going past login pages. BUT - along with a number of other replies, about ignoring "sensitive" areas, (religion, medicine etc.) they have not explained HOW, and until they do, I don't trust them. Others have indicated that avoiding sensitive areas could just mean that there aren't any "channels" at the Phorm end for ads for those areas, doesn't mean they aren't profiling those religious or medical sites in the first place. And who'se to say they might not decide that they will introduce such channels later - it wouldn't be difficult once they had got legal approval for the basic system - it would be very difficult to stop them simply creeping it to include more ad channels. Where would the Rubicon be there?
My bottom line is still that each of the unique data exchanges between my EACH of my individual site users and my site is unique, personal, and not Phorm/Webwise's property. They are not entitled to intercept it, redirect it, snoop on it, mirror it, categorise it or profit from it.