Author: Martin
Published: Oct 14th, 2008
Comments: 3

Firephorm – the anti-phorm Firefox extension

We have covered Phorm before at Ghacks. It is a very scary cooperation between several Internet Service Providers and advertising companies. The Internet Service Providers install tracking cookies on user systems and create a unique profile for each user which is then used by the advertising agencies to display targeted advertisement to the user. Especially [...]

Tags: advertisement, firefox phorm, firephorm, internet service provider, phorm, privacy, tracking, tracking cookies
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