Phorm
Phorm have come up quite a lot in the main stream media recently. It’s something I read up on a little while ago. In short they’re a company that specialise in targeted advertising based on deep packet inspection. It is not clear how Phorm will then deliver these targeted advertisments but as they will have servers at the ISP level, it is possible for the to redirect or even inject HTML or javaScript into the pages that are being delivered.
There are a few things you can do to stop Phorm:
- Use an ISP that doesn’t have any deal with Phorm. The three who are confirmed to at the moment are Virgin media, BT and talktalk.
- Email website-exclusion at webwise.com and have your own site excluded from their system.
- Spread the word. Join the facebook group, blog about it and generally let people know what is going on with their ISP.
