Comments on: Phorm Storm Continues to Ravage British Users http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9337/phorm_storm_continues_to_ravage_british_users/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:18:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: MaryJayne2769 http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9337/phorm_storm_continues_to_ravage_british_users/#comment-180620 MaryJayne2769 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-180620 QUOTE: the targeted adverts will be so much better than the random ones we see today Why not stick with advertisements that pertain to the website. Why not stick with the advertisements that have content appropriate advertisements on the various webpages: hardware and software offers on tech webpages food and home improvment advertising on cooking websites etc. Sounds to me the large corporations are just looking for another way to spy on the public. ISPs that adopt this advertising scheme should be worried because they will lose A LOT of their customer ba<x>se. I for one will not even hesitate to switch if my ISP gets this advertising implemented. As always though no advertisements are better. I have programed myself to ignore them all anyway. QUOTE:
the targeted adverts will be so much better than the random ones we see today

Why not stick with advertisements that pertain to the website. Why not stick with the advertisements that have content appropriate advertisements on the various webpages: hardware and software offers on tech webpages food and home improvment advertising on cooking websites etc.

Sounds to me the large corporations are just looking for another way to spy on the public. ISPs that adopt this advertising scheme should be worried because they will lose A LOT of their customer base. I for one will not even hesitate to switch if my ISP gets this advertising implemented.

As always though no advertisements are better. I have programed myself to ignore them all anyway.

]]> By: Boomer The Dog http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9337/phorm_storm_continues_to_ravage_british_users/#comment-180621 Boomer The Dog Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-180621 I wonder if ad blocking software would do anything? At least if users block Phorm's ads it could be a kind of protest. I wonder what the current ad companies would think if their ads were covered or replaced by Phorm ads? Isps should remain neutral to this kind of thing. I used a sponsored 'free' ISP a long while ago and it was annoying you had to click on a banner so that you wouldn't get disconnected from the net after so many minutes. I wonder if ad blocking software would do anything? At least if users block Phorm’s ads it could be a kind of protest. I wonder what the current ad companies would think if their ads were covered or replaced by Phorm ads? Isps should remain neutral to this kind of thing.

I used a sponsored ‘free’ ISP a long while ago and it was annoying you had to click on a banner so that you wouldn’t get disconnected from the net after so many minutes.

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