http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20757285 en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:16:34 EDT Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:16:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20763867 DJBuzz24 : Nerdy1, if I worked for SuddenLink I'd prefer my anonymity as well.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20763867 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:45:49 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20761008 netPoser : Ad-Targeting Companies and Critics Prepare for Senate Scrutiny

The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday to look at the policy issues raised by advertising that is targeted to the online behavior of Internet users. Some of the participants are trying to bolster their positions in advance.
»bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/0···crutiny/

And it made it to slashdot
»yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/07/08/226227.shtml]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20761008 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:19:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20760614 anon : Yes I'm anon, and I've got to stay that way. ;)

If Suddenlink was using this, I'm 99% sure I'd know about it.

Plus I don't have any of those cookies on my machine.

I'd think you could delete it and add it to your blocked cookies list.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20760614 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:55:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20758992 DJBuzz24 : I don't have any of those cookies. I've never been to that site, don't use any of SL's services (do I even have a username?), don't use their DNS servers, etc. I can't say they *dont'* use Phorm, but I have no proof that they do, either.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20758992 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:00:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20757285 netPoser : Anyone know if Suddenlink is using these folks? I did find a webwise.com cookie on my PC which is a domain phorm owns.

It's a pretty sleazy company that pays an ISP to intercept your web pages to provide targeted ads based on your web surfing--basically it's spying on you without your knowledge.

BT in the UK got a ton of bad press for using these guys--pretty scary stuff.

Steve Gibson goes into detail on how this works on his podcast:
»www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
Transcript - »www.grc.com/sn/sn-151.txt

More on phorm:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm

Blocking tool for FireFox:
»www.dephormation.org.uk/?page=3]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20757285 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:49:56 EDT