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Originally Posted by lucevans
I may be behind the curve here, but I've just discovered that the webwise site is now serving UID cookies to Virgin Media customers via a.webwise.net. The content ("unique" identifier) in the cookie seems to fit the stated format for a production-version Phorm cookie.
It occurs to me that even if, as they claim, VM have not trialled the Phorm DPI kit in their customer network yet, if they ever do, then those of us who are curious about the technology and have visited www.webwise.com to find out further information will immediately be identified to the interception kit by this cookie.
This could result in the mistaken assumption that we have already been presented with the "invitation" page and accepted, thus preventing the invitation from ever being displayed, and our browsing being profiled without our knowledge. (I have, of course, deleted the cookie now) |
I just wanted to bring this post back into clear sight as I suspect it may have got lost amid all the posts last night.
Even with very low security settings, the only cookie the webwise site offers me is a php session cookie. Surfing around the webwise site, it sniffs my ISP and tells me that my ISP has not yet enabled webwise.
Also, if I use the Google cache of the opt-in/out pages, trying to pick up either version of the cookie results in a 403 response from the server. This is the same as I have seen for a few months now.
If there is anyone here who still uses VM, BT or TT (or any of their subsidiaries) can they post whether or not they are also seeing cookies in the a.webwise.net domain?
These cookies are a bit odd because BT have always said that blocking cookies in the www.webwise.net domain will prevent the profiling.
Time for a bit of clarity from Webwise: which domain is used for the UID cookie?
Or, will it be like the 2006/7 trials where every ISP had a unique identifier?
When you think about it, if everyone has the same domain for the cookie, how will the OIX script know which ISP to pay after displaying the ads?