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Originally Posted by Dephormation
The most effective way to stop Phorm affecting any aspect of your web traffic (including stuff you read in Outlook, OpenOffice, Instant Messenger apps too btw) is simply to drop your ISP like a brick.
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Haven't used OE in ages, I use Thunderbird for email. OO only gets used for reading downloaded documents & occasionally creating some, so not sure how that 1 could be an issue, & I haven't done any IMing in ages, & when I did I was using Trillian.
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Originally Posted by Dephormation
I wrote an add on for Firefox that forces your 'opt out' preference, but its pretty ineffective as a privacy & security measure, because you are effectively at the mercy of a company with a history of writing spyware and rootkits.
<--- So now I'm with Aquiss, and loving it.
So, feeling lucky?
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Fairly, yes.
Reason being that I don't just rely on the measures I mentioned. I've actually been called paranoid for the lengths I do go to with some things. Aside from the aforementioned browser security measures, I also use Proxomitron, DNSKong [I swiped the domains from your code to add to my block list
], Kaspersky Anti Virus, & Comodo firewall. I rarely see adverts at all when surfing the net, & when I do I block them [unless it's a site's own special offer or something & I can't be bothered]. I just wish Firefox had a regular expression filter as elegant as Maxthon's. It's kind of like the Remove It Permanently extension, but uses regular expressions instead of XPaths.