Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by davews
This latest offering from AVG has been strongly criticised in many circles. It not only looks at all the links in a Google response page but also downloads those pages and analyses them to see if they look like phish. Exactly like Phorm is doing with its profiling. Many web authors are up in arms about all the increased traffic their sites are getting from this new AVG 'feature'.
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Now thats something I didn't realise, I thought it was just checking the links on the page against a database.
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