Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 07-07-2008, 12:20   #11240
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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One method of messing with Phorm's data that I think has a great deal of potential would be for a server side Phorm webwise UID exchange system.

If websites replaced the UID in the webwise cookie Phorm forges for their domain with one donated by another site with totally unrelated content and dontated your UID into a pool, your browsing of the site would polute someone else's profile, and similarily your profile would be poluted by other people's browsing and the website would benefit as Phorm adverts targeted on their content would be severed up to people who had never visit their site
web wise's cookie handling is supposed to strip out the UID before passing the cookie to the website

so a server side swap of uid etc would not help

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