[iandusud]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62324193

Were any of the pedestrians wearing a helmet or hi-viz though?

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[AlsoSomniloquism]

Although as it is an active

Although as it is an active court case, please no comments on the story linked yet. 

[Simon E]

Oldfatgit wrote:

Oldfatgit wrote:

Interesting result from that link above.

Virtually all external links on road.cc will bring up that prompt with uBlock. It’s a tracker resouce, normally used for referral fees though road.cc seem to implement on every external link, including ones posted by users.

If you don’t have an ad/tracking blocker then you won’t ever see the warning.

[Oldfatgit]

Information  grab and

Information  grab and monitising … 

https://better.fyi/trackers/skimresources.com/ 

“Depending on which of the Skimlinks Tools has been enabled via the Publisher Hub, this JavaScript file will do the following:

Collect and store information about links that Users click on…
Collect and store information about Skimlinks Enabled Sites (or any web page viewed using Publisher Toolbars)…
Drop a Skimlinks cookie when a User visits a web page or clicks an outbound link, so we can record anonymous information about the pages, links and Merchants visited by Users across our Publisher network…
Synchronize anonymous cookie identifiers with third parties to enable us to share and license anonymised audience segments with third parties to support services including, but not limited to, customisation of websites, targeting of content, and advertising optimization.” Source

[chrisonabike]

Is that some additions by an

Is that some additions by an add-in or indeed road.cc for grabbing info about where people are going?  Copy-paste of the text (ensuring it’s text that’s getting pasted) looks OK, seems to be the BBC.

However if I start posting about entitled cyclists lacking in roadcraft, reminding people that the cycle bits of the highway code are mostly “should” and therefore basically just wishes etc. you’ll know.

[Oldfatgit]

Interesting result from that

Interesting result from that link above.
Exercise caution …
 

 

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