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Originally Posted by oblonsky
I agree that there are a lot of things Phorm should do, but in the event they don't then there are many steps webmasters can take to hamper the ISPs attempt to make money off the back of people's private data and other people's content.
I trust that the ISPs will ensure that Phorm complies with robots.txt. Their argument for implied consent is weak already but disappears entirely if webmasters are serving them a DENY ALL robots.txt.
In the unlikely event that Phorm does get rolled out, and is allowed by the regulators, it would be suicide if an ISP was found to be breaching other people's copyright by ignoring the robots.txt.
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As they will be caching robots.txt, wouldn't it be better to deliver phorm a massive list of disallow statments, including for paths that do not exist - storage may be cheap, but searching it would make a bit more work for Phorm's profilers every time a phorm victim requested a page from your site?