Comments

• BrownieBoy

  2010-02-25 04:18:03

  I'm outside the UK. I get an advert for HP rather than Microsoft at that position on the page.
  
  So, yes, I'd say it's just coincidence.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2010-02-25 07:45:03

  Thanks, that's good to know.

• wallclimber

  2010-02-25 15:28:34

  I'm also from outside the UK, and just visited that BBC article and saw no ads at all. Which is how it should be. Yes? : )

• Roy Schestowitz

  2010-02-25 18:17:48

  Have you got AdBlock running?

• Mikko

  2010-02-27 10:40:27

  i tested without adblock and there's no ads

• Roy Schestowitz

  2010-02-27 11:57:16

  The guy who grabbed the screenshot is in Canada.

• your_friend

  2010-02-27 17:21:12

  The ads are Flash and they work with Gnash, how nice. Konqueror without flash is ad free. Iceweasel with Gnash is as shown in the screenshot, though it has start buttons for most. The lack of ads in Konqueror may also be because I have a five year old image server block list that eliminates many obnoxious sites. If only BBC's ad friendly tech would also serve something worthwhile outside of the UK.
  
  As websites grow in complexity and obnoxiousness, basic techniques still work. The easiest one is to avoid places like BBC. Like many news sites, the BBC has suffered a precipitous decline in quality. Even Google news annoys with it's silly new newsrack feature and people spam the listings through various techniques such as Microsoft's favorite, crapflooding. BBC's nasty site drove up CPU use, so I've had to kill the whole browser. This is mostly why I get my news through feeds and Google news.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2010-02-27 19:57:14

  Most sites are made light if you just disable JS.