Zen Internet Support Forum

Following the welcome statement from Gary Hough/Zen regarding Phorm in the thread "Selling your customers to the highest bidder".
http://forum.zensupport.co.uk/thread/30072.aspx

I wondered if there was an official Zen Internet view on NebuAd who, amongst other things, actually inject code into packets destined for an ISP's customers from, say, Google that then allows 'targetting ads' to be displayed in their browser. For more regarding NebuAd, see today's posts in The Register "NebuAd forges Google data packets"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/topolski_takes_on_nebuad/

I realise that the financial pressure on ISP's must be enormous but do they really need to do such things?

Thanks

Lee Stone

 

The era of all-SSL is nearly upon us.

It would actually be quite feasible to set up a permanent VPN to a nearby server.

Rather than asking about the likes of nebuad and phorm we should be asking Zen if they intend to use any service like this and not just be a internet provider but may become a host for add selling companies.

There is a bigger picture here that may or may not affect the end user but may well affect companies that get cashback from customers sales, if the middle man inserted his referal link he could cream off the sales cashback.