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Re: ISP Based Contextual Advertising This issue has come up in the News forum. I'll repeat what I said there. There isn't anything we can do about our ISP's collecting data on us, but it's very easy to prevent ads from making it to our desktops. I apologize to anyone here who depends on that income to fund their websites, but as usual, the greedy will spoil things for others.
The troubling part is that those most likely to spend times on security websites are the same people that are capable of blocking the ads. The notoriety that this is garnering has convinced me that it is time to adjust my privoxy rulesets to allow ads from sites that I learn things from. I will have to think about how to tell if ads are being redirected. |
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 ilagoPremium
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Australia | said by mikenolan7: There isn't anything we can do about our ISP's collecting data on us, but it's very easy to prevent ads from making it to our desktops. I am a great deal more concerned about the company that is collecting the data and providing the advertising than whether my ISP has my personal data. I could hardly have internet access if they didn't.
Many of the regulars in this forum are also interested and active in malware removal and will be familiar with the Apropos rootkit and other products from 121 Media.
Is Phorm just same horse, different color and should they be permitted to legally "intercept" your net activity to provide contextual based advertising.
I'd also like some further real technical information about the proposed interception of requests to enable context based advertising. There is a possibility that you may not be able to control it as easily as you think in the future. I've posted what seems to happen with traceroute and there are a few other things I've noted that really need a lot of clarification.
There is more to this than your relationship with your ISP, this is them making money from selling your data which is then outside their control and yours. |
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