BBC iPlayer now requires your address.

poppasmurf_bewdley

New rules apply to the BBC iPlayer from today:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/11/bbc-iplayer-now-has-password-controls/

Kite2010

Time to dig out fake details if I wish to continue using iPlayer to listen to the radio at work.

Personal recommendations - "Hey, you watched this program, might we suggest something completely random"

Peter999_2

I've just gone into the iPlayer and watched a show without signing in.

It just says that "soon" you will need to login - not yet though.

Lorian

android app is asking to create an account. didn't require address though, just postcode.

Marvqn1

iPlayer already has programme recommendations. When you've watched a programme, it shows other related programmes.

VisionMan

All platforms are in different stages of development.
That the iPlayer is now subject to the licence fee is undoubted.

boliston

There was something in the news article about the BBC being able to identify someone from their email address - I'm not too sure how they could do this

VisionMan

boliston wrote: »

There was something in the news article about the BBC being able to identify someone from their email address - I'm not too sure how they could do this

No they can't. you must have misread it.

Sam_Fallow

boliston wrote: »

There was something in the news article about the BBC being able to identify someone from their email address - I'm not too sure how they could do this

VisionMan wrote: »

No they can't. you must have misread it.

maybe meant the IP address.

VisionMan

The idiosyncrasies are irrelevant. If one wishes to watch the BBC iPlayer, one now needs a TV licence.

brewerdave

VisionMan wrote: »

The idiosyncrasies are irrelevant. If one wishes to watch the BBC iPlayer, one now needs a TV licence.

Not quite right - "one now legally requires a TV license" but you don't need a license -plenty of ways round it on a PC/ Android box.