"Charter is notifying customers affected by its NebuAd test, while pointing them to a page where they can opt-out of the service."

Yes, but ... the service isn't running yet, and when one goes to said page and opts-out of said service, they are told to try again later when the service is running.

And it's the same type of "opt-out" mechanism as was proposed by Phorm, in that it's a cookie, so you need to "opt-out" from any browser you might happen to use on every system you use.

For those of you (@ZM) who comment about the absence of an outcry on this side of the pond, well, there really hasn't been any notice of this at all, over here, unless you happen to dig into the Charter website, which few, if any, do. I heard about it from the Spamassassin mailing list, for crying out loud! And I don't know what the British press is like on these types of hot topics, but this type of geeky stuff is pretty much restricted to geek news outlets, anyway. Frankly, I'm proud of how quickly our elected reps have jumped on this ... especially when compared to the speed at which your elected officials have (under)reacted to Phorm and its much wider rollout.

Paris, because she is an American who doesn't mind people spying on her habits ...