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Is anyone else getting advertising banners on their view of the BBC news website? Not logged in at present, but I'm surprised to see that the BBC has been allowed to generate a commercial income in this way.
Anyone?
I think they do outside of the UK? where are you?
VPN?
It displays adverts generally to non UK users.
Nope - same as ever for me.
It's always had ads from abroad, it may be that some sort of glitch with the site, your ISP or the geolocation database means that BBC now thinks you are coming in from overseas. This has happened to me before on other sites, notably Bing Maps not letting me see OS.
Yeah, no ads for me either.
I sometimes get them when using my work VPN if I've accidentally changed the location to a different office.
Also, my phone sometimes initiates a sort of VPN (I'm not a very tech literate person!) When it decides I'm on a unsecure/unfamiliar WiFi network. Until I click the button to trust the network (if I do trust it) I get adverts. After that it's fine
Aah.. VPN may be it.. I;m on a work computer that connects to the internal systems via a VPN. I wonder if they've changed VPN location?
Thanks all, I knew STW woudl have teh answer! Quicker than phoning IT too!
Ta
Keith
Do you have an option of split tunnel or full tunnel on the VPN connection? If so, split will send internal (work) traffic over the VPN and Internet traffic direct.
Is anyone else getting advertising banners on their view of the BBC news website? Not logged in at present, but I’m surprised to see that the BBC has been allowed to generate a commercial income in this way.
Demand an explanation from the director general.
24/7 adverts for the Tory Party courtesy of our Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport....
I get this frequently. Sometimes the work VPN automatically picks a different location based on one of our server locations (seems pretty random) and all Google search results come back in a random ‘forrin’ language. Had to navigate web searches in Arabic the other day!
BUT I DON'T BUY A LICENCE FOR THE TV CHANNELS I ONLY SUBSCRIBE FOR IPLAYER AND THE NEWS SITE!!
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24/7 adverts for the Tory Party courtesy of our Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport…
You must get the red version of the Beeb. If you can manage a 180 so you get the blue version you'll find it's all Corbynite anti-government stuff.
Quite how the BBC manage to consistently present a point of view biased against your own, regardless of what that point of view is, I'll never know