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Originally Posted by SimonHickling
Well the latest contact I have been given form BT just answered some questions. I have no explicit agreement to quote, so the gist of it was to avoid profiling
- Use HTTPS
- Use HTTP authentication
- Block Googlebot
- Tell us what your sites are an prove you are the owner.
I have replied as follows and copied my MP in for good measure. My MP has so far seemed quite supportive on the issue, but we'll see how it goes.
If anyone would care to provide anything they think worth mentioning in the next installment, I'm open to suggestions. |
And you can add to your comments:
None of those methods are available to those who use free hosting provided by their ISP (ie BTOpenworld/Geocities/NTLWorld etc). We have no facility to use https or set up robots.txt.
(I have just noticed that one of the sites I am responsible for hosted elsewhere can be accessed by https. But that comes with a drawback in that the supplier of the space has a self-signed certificate which flags an insecure warning in many browsers. Nothing I can do about it myself but complain to the hoster, but people have already been doing that for years and failed to get it changed. I would prefer my visitors not to be put off by a certificate warning outside my own control..).