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Remove parental control on the BBC iPlayer?

Posted by Ryan Cullen | Posted in iPlayer | Posted on 26th December 2007

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There seems to be a large flaw with the BBC iPlayer, their Parental Control feature is based on a cookie.
This makes it very easy for any computer whiz kid to allow themselves to watch programmes which are normally shown after the watershed whenever they like. And to top it off, the BBC explain how to delete the cookie in their help page.

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Ryan Morrison said on 11-01-2008

The new look BBC homepage is also controlled by a cookie – so anytime you reset them the layout changes back to the original format.

It’s probably an interim step before launching a full membership service.

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