Overcome Phorm with noise!
22nd May 2008 by David North
After all the toing and froing with Phorm and various opponents including the ICO it seems another solution is being made available to Internet users and it’s free!
Rather than blocking the Phorm cookie required by the service or even opting out it takes it to the next level of actually providing Phorm with completely erroronous data. Called AntiPhorm this software runs in the background and simulates natural web surfing activity but of course this isn’t want Phorm wants as it’s effectively feeding random data into their system!
So if Phorm decide to continue with their current opt out stance enough people installing this simple piece of software will be a decent spanner in their works.
If Phorm is listening sort yourself out and change over to opt in - people are only going to resent, sue or try and sabotage your attempts. You might even be surprised how many people sign up for Phorm if it really provides such well targetted adverts as you claim.
