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Originally Posted by GeoffW
- The redirection between servers must be bad for performance, and even if people don't care much about ads they don't click on, they will care about anything that impacts performance.
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I've been meaning to post some thoughts on the question of performance.
Given the mythical white lists, black lists, user agent filters, opt in/out/shake it all about cookies...
The processing of every request, in real time is going to be a big overhead isn't it?
For each request Phorm must;
- Check for cookies, and perform redirects if necessary to set cookies*
- Check the URL against a black list of 25 (up to 60,000+) private sites**
- Check the user agent against a list of target user-agents***
- Check the request for http auth params to avoid protected content****
- Filter the page and URL for names/addresses/identifiers/sensitive words****
* caveat, opted out users must use different infrastructure
** caveat, this will never be complete no matter how long the list
*** caveat, this will still result in non-browser apps being profiled
**** caveat, inadequate because many unencrypted yet private txns are not authenticated
***** caveat, this will never ever work ... it will capture names & identifiers of all kinds
And that's for every request, before you even start profiling the content.
The overhead on an http request will be immense.