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Story: BT finishes trial, expects to use Phorm

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Shill

> naive...

Blinkered .. back at you.

> I'm sure your friends will thank you for sending
> them to an ISP who will charge more or provide
> slower connections speeds

The recommendations are based on customer satisfaction scores, uptimes, and personal experience of their services across a multitude of lines .. as well as more esoteric considerations like whether they are selling your click tracks to the highest bidder.

> Who do you expect to pay for your free lunch?

Either nobody or whoever I choose. NOT whoever a huge monolith like BT chooses for me.

> You watch TV with adverts

Actually I don't. I have been using MythTV for several years now and very seldom glimpse more than a millisecond or two of adverts on the way through, while dabbing the skip button.

> and I'd guess that even if you consider yourself to
> idealistic to use google or yahoo that 99% of the
> population use one or the other- and in case you
> hadn't realised they are both more invasive than
> phorm.

I tend to use google and have a google mail account that I use in emergencies. I also have a Tor proxy running inline with a Privoxy proxy which would make any tracking they tried moot.

> So, rather standing on your sopa box, why don't
> you try to understand the basic commercial
> percepts of the real world and stiop getting
> sucked in by what seesm to be a very small
> group of NIMBY's...?

You consider yourself to be in the majority of those who have properly considered the issue. Unfortunately I do too, and there is no reliable proof either way. You also think you have understood the harsh realities of the world and think I've missed a trick. Unfortunately I think you have been duped by the expensive marketing machines running full tilt on this one and that I've got a clearer view of the realities. Ahh well.

If they were being honest about their intentions, they would offer a browser add-on that did all this for you, rather than install black boxes at the ISPs and scarf heaven knows what off the data streams. Actually that has already been tried quite a few times over the years in various different guises and guess what, people didn't buy in. They didn't like the idea quite frankly. So phorm are trying it again, only this time it is being installed invisibly at the ISP so they don't get a real choice.

Oh and if you call some piece of high velocity spin next to the opt-out a real choice, then shame on you.

That is of course if opting out actually does opt you out of everything the boxes are doing. Who's to say on that one .. not even the ISP.

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