What ISP?

[andygates]

With BT being fiendishly spendy and utterly jumping the shark over Phorm, I needs me an ISP.  There's no cable down here in sunny Devon, my monthly usage is around 12Gb (it'll go up now that the Wii supports iPlayer) and all I need is a nice unspied-upon neutral vanilla pipe that stays up.  Suggestions?  Bundle packages might be tempting.

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[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

What's Phorm?

[simoneck.livejournal.com]

evil intrusive monitoring of your network traffic (for targeted advertising, at least to begin with).
NTL is still undecided last thing I read.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Exactly that. It's a deep-in-the-datastream traffic analysis that pipes targeted adverts to you. It is allegedly anonymised, but I never believe that.

Basically I don't want ads for goatfelch.com (derived from my foul evening surfing) appearing during the day while showing some cool Wiki article to somebody. It's none of their business and I don't want the adverts at all, never mind 'targeted' ones. And that's assuming that we trust them not to do all sorts of intrusive other screening. They can, simply, feck off.