[Lancaster] is your ISP using Phorm's site tracking system?

[Ken Walton]

Hi Andy,

I just looked up Plus.net, my ISP, and they say on their forum that they 
have no immediate plans to use Phorm, and if they did it would only be 
as an option for users who wanted it -- perhaps very very cheap internet 
access subsidised by advertising as an alternative to their standard 
packages.

--
Ken Walton

andy baxter wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just found out about this:
> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1273
>
> It's a way for a third party company to track your internet usage 
> (site visits) at the ISP level by directing your page requests through 
> a series of proxies that inject bogus cookies into your connection 
> with the website. These cookies are then used by the company ('Phorm') 
> to gather information on what sites people are interested in in order 
> to target advertising. If anyone else doesn't like this, it might be 
> worth writing to your ISP to ask if they are using, or have plans to 
> do so in the future. I have written to mine (metronet) and they have 
> said they are not using it at the moment but have so far refused to 
> say whether they have any plans to do so in the future. (Their words were
> 'There is no further information regarding this, other than what my 
> colleague has replied.' )
>
> andy
>
>
>
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