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Listed below are comments made by MrsSilly between Sunday, 28th June 2009 and Tuesday, 14th July 2009.

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Changes to international pages (4) 07:25am on 14 Jul 2009 What I do not understand is why, if the BBC is so strapped for cash, it has two websites - one with adverts and one without.

If adverts are so essential to the BBCs finances that it will collapse without them, why not have just one universal website the same for everyone and use an ad-blocker for anyone with a UK IP address. I use one and it works fine for me. It is about time this farcical and unnecessary situation was put behind us.
Changes to international pages (4) 07:57am on 09 Jul 2009 I do not care if:

1. There are adverts - I do not read them.
2. I cannot view restricted video - So what!

I want to read about UK news, politics and business. I do not want to go through hoops to get the information. I do not want to be pigeon-holed because of a fallible code. Making a personal assumption about me because of my IP address is disparaging.
Changes to international pages (4) 12:09pm on 06 Jul 2009 I do wonder whether webpage adverts actually work. I suppose someone has done a survey and come up with figures to justify them.

But I can only speak for myself. I would never click on an advert. I do not know where it would take me, nor would I know what I might 'pick up', and not being able to understand what an advert says ensures I steer well clear of it.

So, are adverts the money-spinners websites appear to think they are or are they just Emperor's Clothes?
Changes to international pages (4) 7:24pm on 03 Jul 2009 Three of the five reasons Steve gave for making this decision are related to adverts.

If adverts are the prime reason for the change, it fails straight away. I have an Ad-blocker so do not receive any adverts. I suspect there may be other folk who have something similar as well. So that argument is dead in the water.

As far as video 'rights-issues'. It makes no difference to me if I do not see them.

It is the UK news I want to read, not foreign news that the BBC wants me to read.
Changes to international pages (3) 10:49am on 02 Jul 2009 When will the red button return? Or, when will the BBC webpages be the same for everyone?

No discrimination. No filtering. No defining what the BBC think a person is solely by their IP address.
Changes to international pages (3) 09:35am on 01 Jul 2009 A poorly conceived idea which has got a number of people annoyed. To admit as much seems to be a problem.

It could be changed back to how it was before but I wonder whether this has now become a case of not wanting to lose face. ;-)
Changes to international pages (3) 4:53pm on 28 Jun 2009 I am not in a box! I do not want to be thought of as "Being in a Box!" I like to think I have a mind of my own, so I get most annoyed when some bright-young-person decides that they know better what I want to watch/read/view, etc. I might prefer something else.

I couldn't care less about iplayer or other spurious reasons why the decision was made to have to websites (in effect). I visit the BBC website to get news that interests ME, not what some BYP wants me to read! As someone once said, "I AM NOT A NUMBER!" And I am not an IP ADDRESS!

So please, allow me to make up my own mind as to whether I want to see UK or International news. I am old enough to make this decision myself.

Rant over. :-)

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