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jims jimny:
looking to change my isp
so is anybody running SKY & if so whats it like
cheers
jim
strapping young lad:
these may help
http://www.mud-club.com/forum/index.php?action=search2
broadband has been discussed many a time before, including sky
personally im ok with it, others are not
carbore:
Unless you want all your surfing data to be sold to anyone who wants it avoid Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk.
they are implementing Phorm, read more here www.badphorm.co.uk
"Simply put, three of the UK's largest ISPs (Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk) have decided to sell your private browsing history to an advertising broker. Yes, the entire list of every web page you visit gets sent to Phorm (the broker) in real time, as you click, so they can send you 'targeted advertising'. Naturally the ISP's are not too keen on telling their users this, they'd much rather feed us all platitudes about how it'll help combat phishing and how the targeted adverts will be so much better than the random ones we see today. In fact, they didn't even announce it to the UK press, we had to find out about it from the New York Times!"
I use plus net who despite being owned by BT have said they dont intend to implement Phorm.
PS BT actually implemented this as a test without telling anyone. They may get sued.
MuddyMachine:
Just phone BT about this as I am looking to move to them, they were coy to start with then gave me this link saying it was only a voluntary trail in the Humberside area
http://webwise.bt.com/webwise/index.html
we will have to see :?
carbore:
Here is another reason NOT to use BT
BT broadband customers who don't use an @btinternet.com address are being forced to jump through hoops to send email, as the national telco says it is tightening its anti-spam policies.
A change in BT's rules means individuals and businesses who use a desktop SMTP program such as Outlook or Thunderbird with their own domain name are being confronted with error number 553 when they try to send mail. SMTP error 553 is raised when a remote server rejects the mail because the sender's domain is not on its approved list.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/25/bt_email_verification_update/
They just do what ever the hell they like.
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