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Originally Posted by R Jones
Exactly - so they did it illegally - that's what the 2weeks pre-trial ads on popular 3rd party sites were for - to get as many 121Media cookies secretly dropped on people's systems as possible in advance - p7 "Normally the PageSense system deploys cookies directly to user's (sic) machines. BT's Broadband terms and conditions prevented this approach. Instead 121Media conducted an initial cookie drop exercise. For two weeks prior to the trial proper 121Media purchased advertising space on popular third-party websites from which cookies were dropped directly onto users machines. This approach in turn constrained the effectiveness of the BTRT trial since not all of the 10,000 triallists were covered by the initial-drop. Estimations were made that approximately 7,000 had received a cookie."
Aren't Terms and Conditions a pain? But never mind we can get round them, although darn it-we do feel our effectiveness has been constrained.
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I know it is so wrong. However, even though they did it like this to get around the fact that their Ts & Cs did not allow them to do it "using PageSense in the trial" it does seem to me that you are dead right: They found a way to drop the cookies all over the place so that they could use the fact that they were there later, but without breaking the law (in their opinion). Is that what we are saying here?
Hank