[ubuntu-uk] phorm add on in firefox

[Iain Lane]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Iain Lane <iain at orangesquash.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>  > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 09:05:08AM +0000, Jai Harrison wrote:
>  >  > How can you be sure that's all they're doing?
>  >  >
>  >
>  >  I can't, again, no different to companies like doubleclick. I see it as no
>  >  better or worse than doubleclick et al.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Cheers,
>  >  Al.

Except that for Doubleclick you actually have to request one of their
adverts for them to get any information on you at all. They can only
target ads to you based on this. Phorm sees *all* of your browsing
activity regardless.

Iain