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points by alt227 2 days ago | 0 comments

The BBC website? Arent the BBC like the only media company that dont show ads?

BBC doesn’t show ads in the UK (bbc.co.uk), but the international edition (bbc.com) does. The site looks quite different, and automatically redirects based on geolocation.

(Annoyingly it’s also stored in a cookie; if you travel frequently, you can get stuck in a redirect loop.)

[–] alt227 2 days ago

I did not know that. I have just checked and my UK ISP provided DNS does not even resolve bbc.com!

[–] charlieyu1 2 days ago

BBC good food has tons of tracking. Then I found out they don't belong to BBC anymore.

[–] alt227 2 days ago

Good Food no longer has any mention of the BBC anywhere except in the domain name. I dont think its fair to call it BBC Good Food any more.

[–] rmccue 2 days ago

This is true for a few of these “BBC” sites; they were spun out (and merged) into a company called Immediate Media.

[–] alt227 1 day ago

Care to name a few others? Genuinely interested.

[–] rmccue 1 day ago

Anything that was a BBC magazine got spun off, so that includes Top Gear (the magazine), Good Food, and Gardeners World (and Radio Times, although that didn't officially have "BBC" as part of its name afaik).