One more interesting post on how evil Phorm really is. Looks like there is no escape, and best of all if the Phorm servers go down it breaks your internet connection. This might actually be Phorm’s undoing – if browsing speeds plummet as everything has to go through their hardware, customers who don’t even know about it will complain and eventually ISPs will drop it.
(Quoted from http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&f=174096756&m=456009490931)
“@Nate Anderson , Author:
Privacy International have not inspected the system. A consultancy called 80/20 Thinking Ltd were paid by Phorm to inspect the system. 80/20 is a private venture run by 2 guys from Privacy International.
Phorm now no-longer reference PI.
Furthermore, as previous commentators have noted, most other tracking tech you can opt-out of by ignoring cookies or stop using [free] web services. ISPs take a fee for their CARRIER service.
The use of cookies gave us a useful insight into a scary reality, for any real tech-heads I’ve written about it here:
http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?548
Webise/Phorm could possibly break your internet connection!
And finally rumours amongst investors is this is coming to America, with Phorm being in talks with AT&T:
rumour here:
http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail/?display=discuss…35&it=le&action=list“