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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
The domain names of my web sites are none of BT's concern. Search services are providing a useful service, still some webmasters elect to exclude their sites from the search index or from caching (by both proxies and search engines). If BT want to take the position that Phorm can be excluded, what is the UA name used in requests from Phorms profiler? On some sites I may exclude them from all or part of a site using robots.txt, on others I'd like to use a rewrite engine or server side UA sniffing to send them garbage -- as is my right.
Then there's the issue of passing off when they phorge a tracking cookie (as previously noted this could potentially contravene a sites privacy policy). There's certainly no implied consent from me for Phorm/BT to be setting these cookies for my domains.
Something else I've been wondering. HTTP cookies are limited to 20 per domain, what happens if this limit is reached? Do Phorm overwrite a legitimate cookie?
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