aral, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Right, so if you’re having trouble loading the virginmedia.ie web site or getting a “Please Select Product First” alert/error when trying to checkout, clear your browser’s cache and reload the site.

Looks like they pushed something faulty out recently and it gets cached.

PS. You don’t have to clear all of your cache, just the cache for the site(s) in question, as shown in the screenshot for Firefox, for example.

#ireland #virginMedia

aral, 5 months ago

And joy of joys, and of course Virgin Media doesn’t – illegally, too, I might add – accept EU IBAN numbers.

Just reported them to the relevant authorities.

smh

#VirginMedia #ireland

annika, 5 months ago

@aral I ran into this a few times with other companies before Revolut added IE IBANs. Very obnoxious.

aral, 5 months ago

@annika Yeah, Ireland is in the EU and seems to like the privileges but isn’t too hot on the obligations.

TLB73, 5 months ago

@aral
They are a lousy company anyway.
A really aggressive company in fact.
They need a boot in the soft spot.

aral, 5 months ago

@TLB73 Sadly, they are also the only company offering fibre broadband to the house we’re moving to.

Thanks to the galaxybrains in the Irish government, they were allowed to lay down their own fibre, exclusive to their use, that they now have monopoly control over.

So our options are 1Gbit fibre with Virgin or “up to 6Mb” with Eir. So not much of a choice, really.

#ireland #monopoly #virginMedia #broadband

cmsirbu, 5 months ago

@aral might be worth talking to these guys https://www.blacknight.com/broadband/for-home/

They piggyback on a bunch of existing providers' last mile, I don't recall if VM was included. I know of them because they are selling services over https://siro.ie/ fibre.

aral, 5 months ago

@cmsirbu Thanks, just ordered with Virgin but good to know :)

jkmcnk, 5 months ago

@aral that's the endgame of capitalism, not having to be good at it to perpetuate it.

aral, 5 months ago

@jkmcnk Mainstream mediocrity.

aral, 5 months ago

Looks like their whole site is messed up.

#VirginMedia #ireland

ctietze, 5 months ago

@aral looks like a normal modern website to me.

Provided you already closed the cookie banners and chat bots, that is

aral, 5 months ago

And with code like this, should anyone be surprised?

#VirginMedia #ireland #surveillanceCapitalism #adobe #peopleFarming #cnts

Screenshot of web developer console on virginmedia.ie showing the code that creates the console log statements: if ((document.domain === "www.virginmedia.ie") || (document.domain === "www-virginmedia-ie-uxpuat.upc.biz") || (window.location.search.indexOf("wcmmode=disabled") >= 0)){ SITECATALYST_ACDL = true; let loadTime = 0; let cnt1 = 0; const loadEvent = () => { window.adobeDataLayer.push({ "event": "pageload", "eventInfo":{}, "page": { "pageName": "homepage", "pageTitle": document.title, "destinationURL": document.location.href, "referringURL": document.referrer, "pageLoadTime": loadTime, "pathnameSplit": document.location.pathname.replace(/^/|/$/g, '').split( '/' ) } }); }; const loadEventPre = () => { if ((typeof window.adobeDataLayer == "object") && ((typeof(digitalData) == 'object') && (typeof(digitalData.page) == 'object') && (typeof(digitalData.page.attributes) == 'object') && (typeof(digitalData.page.attributes.pageLoadTime) == 'number')) && (digitalData.page.attributes.pageLoadTime > 0)) { loadTime = digitalData.page.attributes.pageLoadTime; loadEvent(); }else if (cnt1 < 225){ console.log('cnt1-',cnt1); cnt1++; setTimeout(loadEventPre, 115); }else if (typeof window.adobeDataLayer == "object"){ loadEvent(); } }; if((document.readyState == "interactive") || (document.readyState == "complete")) { loadEventPre(); }else{ document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", loadEventPre); } }