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

[andy baxter]

I have just got a message from metronet saying that they have no plans 
to introduce it, and wouldn't do so without notifying their customers.

andy.

Ken Walton wrote:
> 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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