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Originally Posted by popper
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Thanks very much for that. I think it’s more likely that this is Phorm modifying their system in the light of criticism. If they had thought that people blocking webwise.net cookies would be an exception, they may have been happy for those people to incur a significant performance penalty. That’s a normal strategy for optimising computer systems; shift the cost to the exceptional circumstances. They may have realised that either many more people will be blocking webwise.net cookies or that they will get too much criticism for ruining the browsing of those people who do, and have therefore shifted some of the cost back on to everyone else.