Blame the BBC Trust. BBC content for an international audience often carries advertising, but it would be a breach of the Charter to show advertising to a British audience.
This isn't about just a regional blocker.
This is about this being a British public body and something I paid to have made, for solely for the enterainment of the people who paid for the licence fee, that it won't provide to those people but will sell abroad. That is the BBC's job, providing content to me takes precident over foreign markets. It isn't a normal business it is an arm of the state.
>>18484 I don't think I've ever seen the generic you used online like this before. Why on earth have they labelled "what the public likes" as "what you like love"? That's insane.
>>18486 You just know the thing is run by a niece of some BBC higher-up. Overall I like the BBC but there's no denying it's a complete fucking shower in many regards.
It might be the iPlayer team. They have always been given a fairly long leash, hence the whimsical "it goes up to eleven" volume control.
In their defence, the BBC have ongoing problems with tracking user engagement, because they don't require a login to use iPlayer services. They have been experimenting with a variety of things to try and get better data on the kinds of programmes people want to watch without being overly intrusive. The "love" button might be annoyingly twee but it might also help improve the quality of TV, by helping to make the case for programmes with a small but loyal audience. I hate all that social media bullshit, but if the BBC Three commissioners had paid more attention to Twitter we might have got a third series of In The Flesh rather than yet another crap sitcom.