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You will need to be a little more careful about deleting cookies soon.
Once BT allow Phorm to start spying on its customers online activities, as things stand - any opt out is likely to be by cookie, so deleting cookies will actually opt you back in to Phorms profiling which will mean that they see all of your web browsing, including any webmail you read etc - obviously allowing such broad access to your usage data is why they want to do it that way. Forget the Phishing protecting spiel, current browsers already have that, as does a number of "internet security suites".
So you will have a clear choice.. carefully weed out the cookies you dont want while keeping the one that allegedly protects your privacy from the (former spyware operator) partner that BT are buddied up with, or consider a move to another ISP - I hear Plus Net (another BT company) are remaining "Phorm free".
Its your data, do you really want it sold to a 3rd party?
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