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Originally Posted by jelv
I now have absolute confirmation that it is googlebot and googlebot only that Phorm looks for in robots.txt:
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That’s perverse. If correct and there’s no way to specify Phorm and Phorm alone, I predict the matter will go to court. It’s like going to the Mailing Preference Service and being told the only way you can say you don’t want junk mail is by telling your bank to stop sending you your credit card statements.
While Phorm have said webmasters can exclude their sites by sending a
written request to Phorm, that’s slow and not in keeping with the speed of the Internet. How long is it going to take Phorm to act on a request and ensure that it’s propagated to all their interception hardware in different ISPs across the country? Phorm aren’t supposed to have that sort of remote access to the layer-seven switches.