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- Xidane, on 07/06/2009, -1/+18Phuck Phorm!
- Threlly1, on 07/06/2009, -0/+13I hope Virgin dump them next.
These ***** using MY data to make money and then using MY paid-for bandwidth to squirt their ***** ad poison at me.
Where's my ***** cut ? - sargant, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4Not dead, but a -25% drop in share price, with a low of -40% during the day. Hooray!
http://www.google.com/finance?q=LON%3APHRM - Xidane, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4If your name had "girl" in it im sure you'd have a lot more digg friends ;)
- Suricou, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4Services like phorm tell me that users should no longer trust the internet as an impartial transport system, forwarding but never looking deeper than the IP header. I think it's time to pay more attention to ubiquitous encryption - encrypt as much as possible in transport, no matter how trivial it might seem, because even encrypting the trivial will serve to make the important harder to spot.
A more-than-welcome benefit of this, aside from personal privacy, is that it'll *really* screw up the attempts of oppressive governments to censor the internet. They can't filter what they can't identify - they'd be reduced to primative IP and DNS blocks, and lose all ability to snoop on email or social networking services hosted in other countries. - captainquack, on 07/06/2009, -2/+6Aren't Phorm and Virgin still quite freindly?
:| - glaz, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3Bad Phorm, old bean!
- Flinty, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3I think so yeah.. and I think there was a 3rd ISP testing it.
- Suricou, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2We already hit the limit - the point at which the anger users reach at obnoxiously attention-seeking ads equals the profit from showing them. Phorm is supposed to push the limit by allowing for extremally target advertising, more so than even Google can achieve. Rather than making the ads show flashing effects, fake error dialogs, pop-ups, pop-overs and pop-unders, and all the other techniques web users despise, Phorm is supposed to show only ads specifically targeted to the viewer to maximise click-through.
They'll probably still use all the hated methods listed above though, because every little helps to improve the profits. - stotty, on 07/06/2009, -1/+3Front page? I need me some more digg friends!
http://digg.com/tech_news/BBC_NEWS_Technology_Phor ...
:\ - Threlly1, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1I recommend www.perfect-privacy.com
Just for fun, I select a different country each day ! - Threlly1, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1No one unified service at the moment, but they are coming, so keep an eye on the tech sites.
- Tarnum, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1The Internets has Ads?
- disappointed, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1I think advertising as a revenue stream in general isn't what it's talked up to be. Sure, it's made Google rich but I think that's the exception not the rule. The (impending) death of Phorm indicates that we've hit the limit of what advertising on the 'net can do.
- Suricou, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1I was thinking more that every email server, social forum, news site and IM service should offer an encrypted communication option, and if at all possible make this the default or only option. Processing power is cheap today.
- LeviTheSmith, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Do you know of anything like that but free?
- Presbyterian, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Sure they have.....
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -1/+0American ISP's have been doing this ***** now for a while for intelligence and advertising purposes.
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