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Originally Posted by jelv
Was the initial cookie drop just for the people they were intending to trial, all BT users, or for everybody?
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I imagine it would have affected anyoone visiting those "popular 3rd party websites" and the estimate in the report was that of their 10,000 triallists, 7,000 were successfully seeded with the cookie. I imagine one would have to project upwards to work out how many people overall got those cookies - but then that is happening all the time anyway. On it's own it isn't so heinous (although a site should declare it's cookie policy - hopefully these 3rd party popular sites did have a cookie policy that users could access), but when you see the admission in the document that it was being done to subvert the BT T&C's it becomes very damning indeed and I'm looking forward to seeing a BT director explain it on TV (or more preferable, in front of a Parliamentary committee - one with Lord Northesk on it?, and then eventually, in front of a jury).