All posts by Briantist
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I can ban adverts if I want, but I don't get to pick and choose - to be honest, I am unhappy about the action aerials advert because it contains a telephone number, which are not allowed in Google adverts.
UK Free TV takes up three web servers, if there were no adverts I couldn't cover the cost of providing the site out of my own funds.
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Ian: Google provide a service for the provision of adverts, it is an open market provided though the Adwords system of theirs.
You don't get to "pick" the adverts that are shown, they are provided on a per-view basis though a bidding system. The adverts only provide income if someone clicks on them, not on a per-view basis and I have never said anywhere that I endorse the advertisers, because as I said before, I don't know who they are.
I'm not sure how it is "hypercritical" to show adverts this way, that seems very unfair to say so.
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From AdWords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :
"Advertisers select the words that should trigger their ads and the maximum amount they will pay per click. When a user searches on Google, ads (also known as creatives by Google) for relevant words are shown as "sponsored links" on the right side of the screen, and sometimes above the main search results. Click-through rates (CTR) for the ads are about 8% for the first ad, 5% for the second one, and 2.5% for the third one. Search results can return from 0 to 12 ads.
The auction mechanism that determines the order of the ads is a generalized second-price auction. This is claimed to have the property that the participants do not necessarily fare best when they truthfully reveal any private information asked for by the auction mechanism (in this case, the value of the keyword to them, in the form of a "truthful" bid)."
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Paul Smith: Please can you see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Steve Harris: All local TV multiplexes are DVB-T, QPSK, rate 2/3, guard interval 1/32, 8Mbps.
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Mazbar: What an excellent example of both an "overemotional proposition" and a "false dichotomy" - you should be working for the Daily Mail.
I have, as people have objected, banned that company from placing their adverts here.
However, as I have never personally investigated them, I am not actually in a position to offer a personal opinion as all I have to go on is technically heresy.
The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence".
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John: Thank you for your Eeyore comments.
You have provided no evidence of a "disaster", the only thing you have pointed out is that some parts of the system at the Digital UK press office have rather misrepresented the changes to over 1,000 transmitters serving 62 million people in 25.6 million homes as a "switchover", whereas it is a colossal and complex engineering task.
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Rob Plum: I would have a look at the Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
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Friday 2 September 2011 9:53PM
mr a cox: I would suspect that you have a Freesat+ box - which has two satellite tuners in it, so you can watch one thing whilst recording another.
Because the box provides power and a signal to the LNB (the thing on the end of the dish's arm) to switch "polarity", each tuner requires a cable to connect a separate output on the LNB package.