BBC license fee proposals...

[Chris Wilson]

You got it all wrong ? I want you and them to respect everyone , there is no such thing as a race issue , only the best person for the job

Are you saying the BBC employs too many blacks and ethnics? It's hard to follow your posts at times. Or too few? Every time I turn a BBC TV channel on I seem to see a black or ethnic face, they read the news, they are all over children's TV, they are in every soap, they are sat in the front rows and asked an opinion in every discussion programme, and they are in every cartoon, children's or adult's. In my opinion they are grossly over represented. Is that what you are trying to point out? Or the opposite?

Maybe the black actress who became pregnant had a contract in which she agreed not to become so? I can see issues with many acting jobs where a change in appearance doesn't match history or the script. Whatever, as an example of why one should, or should not, pay a licence fee, it's hardly a game changer...


My personal view? The BBC is a Left wing biased, overly PC, over spending bunch of luvvies and Liberals ramming PC and multi -culti into viewers faces. I'd love to see it fall spectacularly and be gone.

 

[malachi]

Are you saying the BBC employs too many blacks and ethnics? It's hard to follow your posts at times. Or too few? Every time I turn a BBC TV channel on I seem to see a black or ethnic face, they read the news, they are all over children's TV, they are in every soap, they are sat in the front rows and asked an opinion in every discussion programme, and they are in every cartoon, children's or adult's. In my opinion they are grossly over represented. Is that what you are trying to point out? Or the opposite?

Maybe the black actress who became pregnant had a contract in which she agreed not to become so? I can see issues with many acting jobs where a change in appearance doesn't match history or the script. Whatever, as an example of why one should, or should not, pay a licence fee, it's hardly a game changer...


My personal view? The BBC is a Left wing biased, overly PC, over spending bunch of luvvies and Liberals ramming PC and multi -culti into viewers faces. I'd love to see it fall spectacularly and be gone.

Perhaps you should start watching Made in Chelsea, if its that much of a problem to you

 

[Pottsey]

So then why can no one tell me why we have no choice of who we want to pay ? Be it sky , Virgin or others .

There is a choice. I choose to pay Netflix and Prime and not BBC.

 

[Billies Bangers]

There is a choice. I choose to pay Netflix and Prime and not BBC.

Sounds like you've taken the intellectual route.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I have just watched 1 program on BBC iPlayer. Lets see if they "catch up" with me.

 

[MatsyLR]

I have just watched 1 program on BBC iPlayer. Lets see if they "catch up" with me.

Coming to get you!

 

[Deleted member 77746]

That's my house. How did you know?

 

[Threepwood]

I have just watched 1 program on BBC iPlayer. Lets see if they "catch up" with me.

Are there any warnings or check boxes in order to do so?

Am thinking about just blocking the whole BBC to be honest.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Are there any warnings or check boxes in order to do so?

Am thinking about just blocking the whole BBC to be honest.

Blocking them? Warnings? There's a dialog box saying "Do you have a TV Licence" I clicked no but the video still loaded.

 

[Threepwood]

Wow, the video still loaded?

Is that not some kind of entrapment?

I mean blocking all of BBC's websites including iplayer of course.

Just need to figure out the best way of doing it. It would be nice if my ISP could just block at least iplayer for me, if not the whole BBC.

 

[Malevolence]

Watching anything longer than 30 mins on iPlayer causes Firefox to become sluggish due to uBlock showing a number in the high hundreds (345) of blocked items. The number keeps on gradually rising the longer iPlayer is running.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Watching anything longer than 30 mins on iPlayer causes Firefox to become sluggish due to uBlock showing a number in the high hundreds (345) of blocked items. The number keeps on gradually rising the longer iPlayer is running.

Why on earth would something show as blocked items? What does uBlock logs show as to what is been blocked? BBC is up to something I can smell it!

 

[Kenai]

I mean blocking all of BBC's websites including iplayer of course.

Just need to figure out the best way of doing it. It would be nice if my ISP could just block at least iplayer for me, if not the whole BBC.

Why not just... Not go on those websites?

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

drivel

Okay my guess. You worked briefly for the BBC and were sacked as, well a read of your appalling ill thought out posts would give a good idea on that that. You now spend your spare time sharing your nonsense on various random forums.

The only plus point is I doubt you will be around for long before you find the next forum to share your 'knowledge' with.

 

[Threepwood]

Why not just... Not go on those websites?

Well, first of all there are a lot of kids/young adults/adults in my family that come here and stay during holidays, even more now my sister has kids quickly growing up too. It would be much eaiser to just block iplayer than trying to trust them to never EVER use iplayer, lol. Especially since they could all use iplayer before with no problem.

Second, wifi is not that secure and even tho' I could, I can't be that arsed to mega protect my self from being piggybacked.

If either of those things were to happen, just once, and someone watched some stinking iplayer, that is recorded by your ISP no? I don't know how far they are getting with pushing through the snoopers charter/Investigatory Powers Bill.. but one fears that one thing they could it for is looking if the minority who do not require a TV license under the old rules have watched some iplayer since sept 1st.

It will be in black and white on ISP records no? And since I am the resposible person for this property I would be the one looking like a berk saying "oh it must have been one of the kids" or "I'm sure I must have been piggybacked".

As for the BBC, they mainly stink. The whole racket with the license to begin with, the abusers they had/have in their midsts.. Dando, etc. It sucks. I'ld like an option to turn them off from ISP level.

Radio 4 is okay, but gosh, one has to turn it down as soon as any news comes on.

 

[Pottsey]

Well, first of all there are a lot of kids/young adults/adults in my family that come here and stay during holidays, even more now my sister has kids quickly growing up too. It would be much eaiser to just block iplayer than trying to trust them to never EVER use iplayer, lol. Especially since they could all use iplayer before with no problem.

Second, wifi is not that secure and even tho' I could, I can't be that arsed to mega protect my self from being piggybacked.

If either of those things were to happen, just once, and someone watched some stinking iplayer, that is recorded by your ISP no? I don't know how far they are getting with pushing through the snoopers charter/Investigatory Powers Bill.. but one fears that one thing they could it for is looking if the minority who do not require a TV license under the old rules have watched some iplayer since sept 1st.

It will be in black and white on ISP records no? And since I am the resposible person for this property I would be the one looking like a berk saying "oh it must have been one of the kids" or "I'm sure I must have been piggybacked".

As for the BBC, they mainly stink. The whole racket with the license to begin with, the abusers they had/have in their midsts.. Dando, etc. It sucks. I'ld like an option to turn them off from ISP level.

Radio 4 is okay, but gosh, one has to turn it down as soon as any news comes on.

If you sister has a licence and her kids access BBC in your house just say it was via a battery power device and you are covered.

Blocking on a PC is easy just put the BBC sites in the host file which is a basic text file. Any one who try's and gets on BBC gets a page cannot be displayed. That's what I did for my home.

 

[HungryHippos]

So are people still swerving the fee or are most paying for the license now?

I'd much rather pay for Netflix and Prime than the TVL, Netflix (non 4k) + Prime together are £80 + £90, TVL is £145, or 85% of the two combined.

 

[Amp34]

Wow, the video still loaded?

Is that not some kind of entrapment?

I mean blocking all of BBC's websites including iplayer of course.

Just need to figure out the best way of doing it. It would be nice if my ISP could just block at least iplayer for me, if not the whole BBC.

Just set up a ban on your router. It's easy enough to do and it would probably take just a couple of minutes depending on your router.

E.g. https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1000889/ for ASUS.

 

[Threepwood]

Thanks Pottsey, I'm getting on that as we speak. Looks like I can simply block the whole of the BBC with;

127.0.0.1 bbc.co.uk

127.0.0.1 bbci.co.uk

In the host file? Not done it before.

Edit: oh but wait, that is just for an individual computer, drat.

Amp34, router ban was my first go to, but not done that before either, then I read it can be a hassle keeping up with any ip changes? Am total noob at that so sorry if I talk nonsense.

 

[Werewolf]

If you ban the domain name it doesn't matter what the ip address is, any request for the domain gets stopped.

However that doesn't help if someone knows the ip address of the bbc sites and tries using that as it bypasses the domain name look up.