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BT (ISP) has “invited” 10,000 random internet users to participate in the latest trial of it’s Webwise system.
What is Phorm and what’s it all about ?
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Each lucky user chosen will have seen the following interstitial advert (those annoying full page adverts) when they tried to surf the web…
BT Interstitial
As you can see BT have misrepresented the Webwise system as a security enhancement for better online protection. This online protection from fraudulent banking sites etc is already built into and active on 90% of users PC’s in the (ph)form of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox and Opera.
Opting in or out causes the system to drop a “cookie” on your PC to notify the system either your in or your out. They will still have to intercept your web browsing to determine the status of the cookie on your PC.
If you clear the cookie then the interstitial advert will pop back up asking you to opt in or out again. Blocking the cookie will be a very effective “denial of service” as the interstitial advert will continue to popup wherever you try to go!
