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Originally Posted by madslug
I agree and disagree, weighting more towards disagreeing.
They are selling a product which scraps copyright content and analyses it in order to make a commercial profit for themselves.
They are using my bandwidth by disguising themselves as a real visitor.
Scrappers are routinely banned from my sites.
They are looking at the sites you look at plus, as a minimum, 9 other sites and PPC ads related to the same search term - 9+ times more snooping than Phorm is doing.
The big negative, is that it does not maintain a database of good/bad sites.
The only plus I can think of is that currently the script is not reporting back to mama.
How many of the above do you rank as redeeming factors?
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Re: AVG8
I have AVG8 and I do have the option to remove the feature in question. So perhaps this feature just needs to be default off, when AVG8 is installed from a user viewpoint. Although from a website owners viewpoint this feature maybe definitely should be off.
Unfortunately with Phorm, the interception of your data would be happening whether you opt in or opt out according to latest analysis.