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Dave Lee | 13:50 UK time, Tuesday, 19 May 2009

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Jake [Archibald]'s second comment made me aware what happened. Instead of seeking the error in my own setup I immediately thought the ´óÏó´«Ã½ messed up (this is the typical developer bit I was talking about). The solution to the problem was easy to remember once I was aware of it.

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based around Seetha Kumar's recent blog about behavioral ad targeting, as does . on the PC Pro piece include this one from hiccup:

...there is absolutely no reason for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to get involved in what is ostensibly a commercial battle between competing technologies.

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Now, I'm quite a proud internet user. I like to think I know what I'm doing. But, that considered, I have no shame in admitting I have no idea what this means: .

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h2g2, which celebrated its 10th birthday recently, is having a redesign. Read about and discuss the changes here.

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It's the obsession even video gamers are almost ashamed to admit: game soundtracks are generally rather wonderful (. I hope). :

For that weekend ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 1 and Xtra1, which I'm sure the UK readers of the site know, will be playing gaming music on the radio, presenting reviews and featuring gaming leaderboards between Radio 1's superstar DJs.

There is much speculation on that post as to the best game theme ever. . We're hoping to get some more info about this very soon.

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The "feedback" topic on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music boards has had to be suspended, provoking reaction from and .

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Click's video of remote trojan horse hacking of computers

Dave Lee is co-editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet Blog, Future Media and Technology.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.


    Re Your comment here by a poster who was obviously in the minority!

    This has nothing at all to do with competing technologies as the poster would have people believe, it is about Profiling of Personal & Private data by a "Third Party" WITHOUT the permission of the Website & or the Web User in question!

    This is TOTALLY unacceptable on a communications channel (unicast) which is inherently designed for TWO way communications without interference from "third parties"!

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    ..there is absolutely no reason for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to get involved in what is ostensibly a commercial battle between competing technologies.
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  • Comment number 2.

    As per DPIShredder - why have you chosen to quote a comment which is clearly in the minority on that and other blogs? Allowing Phorm to profile UK users of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s sites is clearly unacceptable. Allowing them to profile non-UK users is against the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s interests as it is potentially reducing revenue from your own Audience Research profiling (although currently the only non-UK users likely to be affected are those from Korea Telecom).

  • Comment number 3.

    Mr. Chris was gentleman and prudent enough admit he was wrong. It takes a lot of courage and ego-humbling to do that. I myself encounters lots of pop-up error messages such as the one encountered by Chris, which sometimes annoys me to a high degree. However, I just close the pop-up window and move on to what I was doing. Most of the times, they just go out never to pop up back again. Vince at | blog

  • Comment number 4.

    Is the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s stance on Phorm that because bbc.co.uk doesn't carry advertising that it doesn't need to block Phorm/make a public statement against Phorm, but that because ´óÏó´«Ã½ worldwide does use advertising, that it may need to?

    Shouldn't bbc.co.uk also block Phorm/make a public statement against them because, even though the bbc.co.uk sites don't advertise, isn't/can't the communications between the web users and the bbc.co.uk sites still be intercepted (using deep packet inspection techniques, at the ISP side, possibly illegally, and which has caused the European Commission to start proceedings against the UK because of such action), and can't this interception of communications between web users and the bbc.co.uk sites (as well as bbc worldwide sites) still be used to generate targeted adverts on other sites (replacing other people's paid-for advertising with Phorm's own advertisements)?

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    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

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    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

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    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 9.

    Shouldn't bbc.co.uk also block Phorm/make a public statement against them because, even though the bbc.co.uk sites don't advertise, isn't/can't the communications between the web users and the bbc.co.uk sites still be intercepted (using deep packet inspection techniques, at the ISP side, possibly illegally, and which has caused the European Commission to start proceedings against the UK because of such action), and can't this interception of communications between web users and the bbc.co.uk sites (as well as bbc worldwide sites) still be used to generate targeted adverts on other sites (replacing other people's paid-for advertising with Phorm's own advertisements).

    Regard,
    John,
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  • Comment number 10.

    JohnLur - you may be interested in this blog post (and comments) from May of last year.

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    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 12.

    Clues are in short supply today it would seem....

  • Comment number 13.

    through per DPIShredder - why credit you chosen to instance a comment which is clearly rule the inexperience on that and offbeat blogs? Allowing Phorm to structure UK users of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s sites is distinctly unacceptable. Allowing them to
    non-UK users is castigate the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s interests since sensible is potentially reducing yield from your concede conference inquire into profiling (although currently the only non-UK users near to be assumed are those from Korea Telecom).

  • Comment number 14.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

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