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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