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Old 07-06-2008, 17:33   #8366
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

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Originally Posted by vicz View Post
Somehow I can't see them doing anything but the last unless pushed.
I'm sure they include code that can check for the Authorization header, as it would allow them to make the claim that they don't profile [some] password protected sites and use this to satisfy less technical people (eg politicians). They can't rely solely on robots.txt as some sites that use passwords allow google to index them.

I think we can trust them to respect the authorization header every bit as much as we can trust them to respect their opt-out cookies.
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