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On 14/08/2025 23:41, Nick Odell wrote:

I have a friend in that village who navvied for the project and in his opinion, the broadband they now have is better than the regular
commercial product and cheaper too. Well he would say that, wouldn't
he?

Nick, there's something really odd about that web site. I'd never heard
of a .life tld, so there may be something odd about it...

The section "Bringing Broadband to Wennington" ends with "To reade a bit more... click _here_" where here is a link.

A dead link.

Which reads

<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fb4rn.org.uk%2Fawards-tour-wennington%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0pvKgxZoTVkBR5DcZ-rM33>

it's to a google address. And if I follow it through it's dead.

Please tell your friend / the village council.

Andy
--
Do not listen to rumour, but, if you do, do not believe it.
Ghandi.
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Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 14/08/2025 23:41, Nick Odell wrote:

I have a friend in that village who navvied for the project and in his opinion, the broadband they now have is better than the regular
commercial product and cheaper too. Well he would say that, wouldn't
he?

Nick, there's something really odd about that web site. I'd never heard
of a .life tld, so there may be something odd about it...

Not really, it's just one of the new TLDs.

The section "Bringing Broadband to Wennington" ends with "To reade a bit more... click _here_" where here is a link.

A dead link.

Which reads

<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fb4rn.org.uk%2Fawards-tour-wennington%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0pvKgxZoTVkBR5DcZ-rM33>

it's to a google address. And if I follow it through it's dead.

That link redirects me to: https://b4rn.org.uk/about-b4rn/news-events/awards-tour-wennington
which works.

I think the wennington.life site is hosted by Google and Google are doing
their usual thing of spying on everything you do. So the links the
Wennington people have put in to their website are being converted to Google tracking links, and are then redirected to the actual link target.

It's possible that Google have actually broken their spying redirect, and it only works because I'm running an adblocker. <shrug>, wouldn't be the first time.

Please tell your friend / the village council.

...to move away from the Google spying machine, yes.

Theo
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Theo wrote:

That link redirects me to: https://b4rn.org.uk/about-b4rn/news-events/awards-tour-wennington
which works.

Only works insofar as successfully displaying a fancy 404 page.
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On Sun, 8/24/2025 4:29 PM, Vir Campestris wrote:

On 14/08/2025 23:41, Nick Odell wrote:

I have a friend in that village who navvied for the project and in his
opinion, the broadband they now have is better than the regular
commercial product and cheaper too. Well he would say that, wouldn't
he?

Nick, there's something really odd about that web site. I'd never heard of a .life tld, so there may be something odd about it...

The section "Bringing Broadband to Wennington" ends with "To reade a bit more... click _here_" where here is a link.

A dead link.

Which reads

<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fb4rn.org.uk%2Fawards-tour-wennington%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0pvKgxZoTVkBR5DcZ-rM33>

it's to a google address. And if I follow it through it's dead.

Please tell your friend / the village council.

Andy

If you can't see the content, try this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250517152854/https://b4rn.org.uk/about-b4rn/news-events/awards-tour-wennington

Paul
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