BT Silences Customers Over Phorm

An anonymous reader writes "The Register reports that BT, the UK's dominant telecom and internet service provider, has 'banned all future discussion of Phorm and its "WebWise" targeted advertising product on its customer forums, and deleted all past threads about the controversy dating back to February.' Phorm is a controversial opt-out system for delivering targeted advertising that intercepts traffic passing through an ISP in order to profile subscribers via an assigned unique ID based on their online activities. Subscribers can opt-out at the Webwise website but are opted-in again if the Phorm cookie is cleared. Firefox users can install Melvin Sage's Firephorm add-on to manage their interaction with Phorm and Webwise."

Comments

Re:Not a tech support issue?

[Idiomatick]

Before the apples get here and mod you to -253245:
 
But thats different because apple doesnt do bad things. So they aren't really hiding what people are saying they are just bringing the truth forwards to more easily see. The two are totally unrelated.

Re:Is this really how it works?

[giorgiofr]

True, but they're doing it on their own network, not yours. It's obviously hostile behaviour but they don't actually owe you anything.