adverts on the EC wifi

[StrollerEd]

anyone noticed the Scandinavian feel to travel by EC wifi? All the ads think I'm able to read and enjoy Swedish ...

... I keep looking out the wndow to check where I am

 

[185]

Talar du Engelsk? Ja?

 

[StrollerEd]

now an advert for Finnish Air !


so what am I breathing given that the windows don't open ...

 

[jon0844]

The system is Swedish, but it shouldn't do that. I think iPlayer is already restricted but do you get ads on the BBC website?

Sent from my Sony Ericsson Xperia arc via Tapatalk.

 

[asylumxl]

Are you using a mobile or a laptop/tablet?

I know Opera Mini's servers are based in that direction, which is why it used to load sites in foreign languages.

 

[jon0844]

Opera Mini (or Opera Turbo on Opera Mobile) use servers in Norway, but they do now detect your location so you should see local adverts.

But it is possible for things to go wrong, and default to Norway (or in the case of the EC system and others that use it, Sweden).

 

[StrollerEd]

I was using firefox on a mac air

Odd

 

[Any Permitted]

On East Coast the Wifi thinks you are in Sweden and on NXEA it thinks you are in Germany.

I have no idea why but the way to tell is to go on Google and see what the default is.

 

[radamfi]

The system is Swedish, but it shouldn't do that. I think iPlayer is already restricted but do you get ads on the BBC website?

Yes, accessing the BBC website from outside the UK gives you adverts.

Using a UK based VPN gets you back to Blighty for an advert free BBC website, and enables you to use iPlayer, although most wi-fi providers don't like that because it uses a lot of bandwidth and IME train wi-fi is usually too slow anyway.

 

[jon0844]

Yes, accessing the BBC website from outside the UK gives you adverts.

I know. What I meant was, does the BBC show adverts if you access it on EC (which is clearly in the UK, but using an ISP in Sweden).

 

[Poggs]

anyone noticed the Scandinavian feel to travel by EC wifi? All the ads think I'm able to read and enjoy Swedish ...

EC's wireless service is operated by Icomera, who use different types of connectivity from the train. Similar to a VPN, all Internet-bound traffic from the train is sent through a tunneled connection to Icomera's servers, and then it finds its way to the Internet from there.

It appears to any website you access that you're coming from Sweden, and therefore you will have Swedish adverts.

 

[StrollerEd]

now this could be a form of simulated foreign travel - anyone remember reading 'We can remember it for you wholesale' by Philip K Dick?