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Originally Posted by vicz
Why do I think that the 'blacklist' is just more vapourware? There may be a list that you can add your site to, but how would you know if you were still 'accidentally' being profiled? And what would your remedy be (get in the queue after 108,000 other BT offences).
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As BT put my 2 sites on their "do not profile" blacklist I will be very interested to see if they DO get profiled. I may even sign up to Webwise briefly with one of my BTY sub-accounts and visit the site to see what the logs look like. I have to agree - I can't see all that on-the-fly checking working myself, but once the system goes live, if it ever does, I'll be hunting the webmaster sites for ways of detecting the visits. If they are requesting robots.txt then presumably they have to do that from somewhere and it should be fairly easy to visit a site at a set time by arrangement and then check for the robots.txt request by Phorm machinery.
Dephormation.org has various webmaster tools available but I haven't examined them yet - I will if Webwise actually goes live. The one I would most like is the Webwise detector, followed by a redirection of the Webwise-using browser by the affected site, to a Phorm/Webwise information page which encourages people to opt out of Webwise, complain to their ISP and offers links to all the various anti-Webwise sites available. Now that is what I call targeted advertising!