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Originally Posted by SimonHickling
And there in lies the problem. I'm at a friend's house and I use there PC. I don't have the option to over-ride their opt-in, so my traffic is illegally intercepted.
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The line "When in Doubt, Opt out" was there for your hypothetical friend - not you.
I honestly don't know any people who when enlightened of the true 'zero' benefits of the Webwise/Phorm system would actually Opt in. Its illegal, intrusive and written by an organisation who used rootkits to install their spyware/adware products, so I don't trust them.
What would a person get as a benefit if someone were to opt in - Nothing at all in most cases in my opinion. The anti Phishing filter (written by coders who have previous very good experience of writing applications that install on your PC - aka SPYWARE) is already built in IE7. Firefox also has this capability.
OK someone opts in and they apparently get targeted adverts (Benefit?). Big deal, as far as I am concerned I don't want any adverts so why would targeted Ads benefit me or most other people. OK I want to buy something on-line. What do I do. I look for the best price from a reputable company. Anyone who has Phorms OIX system in place is in my opinion far from reputable so I would not be buying from there either as they would be attempting to steer me away from my best possible purchase choice. I could go on but I am beginning to bore myself so I should stop there.