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Originally Posted by warescouse
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.
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Agreed all adverts are blocked on websites I visit, any that do manage to show through are soon killed by Opera with the content blocker.
On another note if you are targeted with adverts for like he said on click a pony. This sort of advert would be so rear that if you used the advert to aproach and possibly buy something. They can start to build a profile Phorm number had targeted ads for a pony, this IP number contacted to arrange to see the pony. This person name and address bought it.. Suddenly no longer anon.
The holes in this system is so big with it being ISP side it is scarey I am glad I moved..