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Originally Posted by rryles
> Because it protects you from phising attacks for free
> Only the ones that don't use SSL - which is a diminishing percentage. The freely available browser based solutions that are enabled by default can stop every phishing attempt that webwise can and many more.
That's very difficult to argue against. The only thing missing is some hard facts on how common https versus http phishing urls are. I've had a look but so far only found anecdotal evidence from several years ago.
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Has anybody actually asked Phorm if their anti-phishing protection only does http:// ? I know they don't profile https:// but there is nothing to say that the anti-phishing, largely done on urls, does not. We shouldn't jump to conclusions.
But I would still have far more confidence in my browser in-built anti-phishing than Phorm's variant. They refuse to say which external databases they are using, most others are quite happy to state this.