Have you been bullied by the BEEB?

If you have been bullied by the BEEB there's money waiting for you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ive-years.html
Derek.

That web site makes my machine run like its got treacle inside.Do they have
a mobile site one can use. I have a feeling that is an all singing and
dancing site.

Brian

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"Derek F" wrote in message
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If you have been bullied by the BEEB there's money waiting for you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ive-years.html
Derek.

On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:46:54 +0100, Martin wrote:

The DM web site works normally on my PC. What are you using?

On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:49:08 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

That web site makes my machine run like its got treacle inside.Do they have
a mobile site one can use. I have a feeling that is an all singing and
dancing site.

Brian

I suspect it's Brian's Text to Speech converter that's choking over
the endless list of artilcles in the RH column of that horrendously
long web page. He's got a valid point in asking about a 'mobile device
compatable version'.

It renders pretty swiftly in Opera on my win2k box. IE6 locks up
after it loads a later part of that page (I can scroll the page before
that happens). Naturally, I have no interest in IE other than as a web
browsing 'curiousity'.
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Regards, J B Good

Has it got active content on it by any chance, like scrollers frames that
change or animations?
Often this problem is due to the fact that the screenreader cannot get
caught up with the updating page and so it looks like its blank.
Brian

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"Martin" wrote in message
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The DM web site works normally on my PC. What are you using?

On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:49:08 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

That web site makes my machine run like its got treacle inside.Do they
have
a mobile site one can use. I have a feeling that is an all singing and
dancing site.

Brian
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Martin in Zuid Holland

Brian Gaff wrote...

That web site makes my machine run like its got treacle inside.Do they have
a mobile site one can use. I have a feeling that is an all singing and
dancing site.

No, it is all the advertising and tracking crap on the page.
That Daily Mail page sets 44 cookies, contains 13 links to external
tracking advertisers and results in a further 70 plus dns queries to
other sites, on a slow connection waiting for those 80 odd sites to
respond must slow things down badly.

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UnsteadyKen

I'm not on a slow connection but I do have better privacy and both my
browsers have ad blockers on them, so maybe they don't have much left to
send me after all the crap is deleted!


Brian

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"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
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Brian Gaff wrote...

That web site makes my machine run like its got treacle inside.Do they
have
a mobile site one can use. I have a feeling that is an all singing and
dancing site.

No, it is all the advertising and tracking crap on the page.
That Daily Mail page sets 44 cookies, contains 13 links to external
tracking advertisers and results in a further 70 plus dns queries to
other sites, on a slow connection waiting for those 80 odd sites to
respond must slow things down badly.

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UnsteadyKen

Meanwhile below is the plain text of the report in question if you want
it - which is
not to say that you ought to have to rely on the ill will of random
Usenet posters to send you DM stuff.

Headline: BBC pays out £100,000 compensation to people 'bullied' by TV
licence collectors: Corporation has made 500 'goodwill payments' over
past five years

Bullets:
Almost 2,500 'goodwill payments' in the last five years
They went to householders wrongly threatened with prosecution
One was a grieving son hassled to buy licence for his dead mother

Text:
The BBC has admitted handing out more than £100,000 in compensation to
innocent people hounded by 'aggressive' TV Licensing officers.

Over the past five years it has made almost 2,500 'goodwill payments' to
householders who were wrongly threatened with prosecution, bombarded
with leaflets and taken to court.

They included a grieving son who was given £250 for the stress caused
when the BBC repeatedly ordered him to buy a licence for his dead
mother.

Peter Troy, of County Durham, was threatened with a £1,000 fine unless
he paid the fee, despite the fact his mother had died six months earlier
and her house was empty.

He repeatedly explained the situation to officers from Capita - the firm
with a £560million contract to collect the fee for the BBC's TV
Licensing - but received an apology only when he threatened to sue.

Another viewer was eventually given £100 after reporting TV Licensing
officers who repeatedly turned up on his doorstep threatening legal
action, even though he did not own a TV.

He said: 'I even considered buying a TV licence in my panic?.?because I
was so worried about the whole situation.

'I was shaken up by the brazen way in which an organisation could ignore
legal restrictions to literally bully people in their own homes. This is
clearly harassment?.?to force people into buying licences they do not
need, simply to increase revenue.'

The revelation - uncovered by a Freedom of Information request - comes
amid growing anger at the heavy-handed way in which the £145.50 fee is
collected.

The BBC repeatedly ordered a grieving son to buy a licence for his dead
mother

Last night Jonathan Isaby, of the TaxPayers' Alliance said: 'It's bad
enough that Auntie has squandered cash on various digital debacles
without then wasting money on chasing people who have already paid for
the broadcaster's profligacy.'

TV Licensing prosecutions are clogging up the courts, with the BBC
accounting for one in ten cases brought before magistrates. More than
180,000 people were prosecuted for non-payment in 2012.

Last year, the Daily Mail revealed the corporation's army of 334
'enforcement officers' - who have no legal right of entry to homes - are
paid a bonus every time they gather evidence leading to a successful
prosecution.

Critics say it means they have a strong incentive to harass those they
suspect of not paying.

A TV Licensing spokesman said: 'Sometimes we get it wrong and work hard
to put things right.'

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On 07/02/2014 14:54, Martin wrote:
There are various browser plugins that will remove the adverts, but nothing to
remove the crap politics and women flaunting their baby bumps and sun tanned
bodies. :-)

That's easy. Append the following line to local host file.

127.0.0.1 dailymail.co.uk

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On 07/02/2014 14:54, Martin wrote:
There are various browser plugins that will remove the adverts, but nothing to
remove the crap politics and women flaunting their baby bumps and sun tanned
bodies. :-)


Do you not have such newspapers in Holland?
Derek

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:16:48 +0000, Derek F
wrote:

On 07/02/2014 14:54, Martin wrote:
There are various browser plugins that will remove the adverts, but
nothing to
remove the crap politics and women flaunting their baby bumps and sun
tanned
bodies. :-)


Do you not have such newspapers in Holland?

There is nothing quite like the Daily Mail. Bild in Germany was near until
last
year they decided that in future there would be no more photos of bare
tits.
The Dutch Telegraph and the local newspapers it owns quote silly DM
articles as
if they are fact sometimes.
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Mail?
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