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   Ram Prakash (ram@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 17:31:51 JST Ram Prakash

   I just realized that BBC.com no longer free to read ONlY from the USA. Can someone outside the USA please confirm if they are able to access bbc.com and click on news articles without hitting the paywall?

   What gives?? Is it another form of retaliation??

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     Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jan-2026 17:31:50 JST Jeri Dansky

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     @ram I'm in the USA and like others in your replies I have not hit a paywall. I'm using an ad blocker but not a VPN.

     On my Mac I do see a message at the bottom of the page which says "BBC subscribers get unlimited access for less than $1/week" followed by a subscribe button.

     But I ignored that and clicked around to a number of articles, no problem.

     I wonder why you're seeing the paywall and we are not.

     (And if they do put up a paywall I'd expect them to exclude users in the UK who already pay a license fee.)

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     Ram Prakash (ram@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jan-2026 04:09:03 JST Ram Prakash

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     • Jeri Dansky

     @jeridansky You have probably given me a clue… I hit the paywall on my phone and my personal Mac. Just to confirm, I checked my work laptop and found that I was able to access the articles. Its probably something to do with my region settings - I prefer the language/region settings to be UK English (because I prefer “colour” instead of “color” and DD/MM/YY still) and somehow the website is confused(I can’t think of any other setting that could be relevant) Anyway thanks for confirming this for me.