Anyone observed content change through Rogers?

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Jul 17 14:52:09 UTC 2009


William Muriithi wrote:
> Hi pals,
> 
> Yesterday evening, I ended up on news.bbc.co.uk <http://news.bbc.co.uk> 
> to get my daily dose of world news. I was surprised in a sad way to note 
> the whole site had extensive changes, full of advertisements and heavy 
> flash use. The most prominent ones were from Rogers.  Five minutes into 
> it, I gave up and decided to call it a day. All through that experience, 
> I assumed the changes had something to do with the bbc organization.
> 
> Then, today at work, I just visited  news.bbc.co.uk 
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk> and behold, the old classic interface filled the 
> screen. Now, it does not make sense to assume this has to do with bbc 
> organization. The problem seem to be Rogers are dynamically changing the 
> content.
> 
> Now, seriously, if this is correct, its a new low. For one, it does not 
> make sense to advertise Roger crap if I am already using them. Second, I 
> am now not sure I whose content I am reading, Rogers or BBC if such an 
> extensive surgery is deemed acceptable.  Have someone been unfortunate 
> to notice this?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> William

Here is what I see through a non-Bell ISP.

http://madisonave.ca/pics/bbc_front_page.png

Madi
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