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Old 12-04-2008, 23:18   #3046
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

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Originally Posted by unicus View Post
Phorm, as far as I know, checks the user agent that is sent from your browser and with Firefox you can pretend to be any browser (or even make one up), just use the add-on 'User Agent Switcher'

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

And there's a large import of user agents here-

http://qainsight.net/content/binary/...gs20070304.xml (right click and download)
Thank you for the urls. I already have user agent switcher.

My idea would be to make it impossible for Phorm to know in advance (from the user agent) whether or not a Firefox browser could be intercepted and profiled by them. Hopefully, the add-on wouldn't interfere with the rendering of web pages because they would still be tailored for Firefox. If we could find a way to force Phorm to exclude Firefox then we will have rescued over 20% of their potential victims.
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