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Originally Posted by R Jones
Good question. My experience as a BT customer is that my ISP have said they are "working on a cookie-free solution". (ie they haven't got one YET)
At present they seem to be running with a cookie-based opt-OUT solution for their forthcoming trials. What they have NOT made clear, is whether all the customer's web traffic will nevertheless suffer redirection anyway, if there is an opt-out cookie or if there is NO cookie. As they have indicated (apparently) that blocking the Phorm/Webwise related IP's and domains will break browsing, it does look at the moment as if intercepting and redirection is going to be universal, (without informed consent) but that you won't be getting a Phorm ID if you are opted out or merely not opted-in.
It's still a rather fuzzy area in terms of what they are planning, and I think they are remaining vague deliberately in the hope that what they have already designed is legal. If it isn't, then they have to go back to the drawing board. So they are obfuscating. I personally don't even think BT feel confident any more whether their proposed trials are legal, otherwise they would have started them already. They are a month late at least.
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So it would appear that adding them to my hosts file, which I get from here
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm and which in turn ensures that I do not see the majority of the nonsense on the internet these days, will give me connection issues. Oh boy, this is just silly
Also, thanks for the links to the vids CaptJamieHunter, will have a watch of them when I get home.