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How to prevent the breaking banner on the BBC News website
Sick of that annoying BREAKING banner on the BBC News website that you can't opt-out of? Simply block polling.bbc.co.uk in your HOSTS file by resolving it to localhost. Job done.
- joosters 11y agoIt's a really dumb website feature IMO. I don't want my news website to turn into some kind of 24 hour rolling news channel. What next? A scrolling message bar at the bottom of the screen?
- jsingleton 11y agoYeah, it's terribly thought out. I wouldn't mind if there was a link to dismiss it that sets a cookie so it doesn't appear again.
- ch215 11y agoThanks for this. I wouldn't mind the banner so much if it wasn't abused so often. Screaming "breaking news" at readers all day for stories like "Andy Murray gets married" is absurd and it devalues bona fide breaking news.