Identity change?

[Vara]

Is the AOL tag on the http thingy for the forums new or is it just me?

 

[BrendanS]

what aol tag?

 

[silvertop]

I am on AOL but no AOL thingy here.

 

[Danny Jo]

I guess your service provider is AOL. I tried accessing the internet from a friend's computer through AOL and their proxy server system or whatever it is drove me up the wall. You should be able to go direct by pasting this url into the address line http://www.ybw.com/forums/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/ym/page/0 (if you click on it, you may still have uncle AOL holding your hand).

 

[Bilgediver]

This must be you....I logged in using AOL then went to YBW.com using the aol browser. Below is the title bar....No AOL ????????

http://www.ybw.com/forums/newreply.php?C...at=showthreaded


John

 

[Vara]

This one;

ISP talktalk,AOL nowhere on confuser.

 

[BrendanS]

somewhere, you've downloaded something which has branded your browser. It's nothing to do with ybw.

 

[Jezlyn]

I've got a lightbulb where you've got AOL.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

That graphic is a standard file held on the home directory of any web site that chooses to have its own icon.....

It looks like AOL automatically change it for their own icon through their own caching/filters/content distribution systems.... suspect its nothing to do with the browser, rather your service providers infrastructure

AOL have a history of mucking about with content/accessability to suit their own agenda......

 

[Lakesailor]

Things like that happen when you reach a certain age.......... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Vara]

Gîte /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[BrendanS]

Yes, but AOL users say in the thread that they don't have it?

 

[rickp]

One of AOLs webcaches may have got confused and dished out the wrong favicon.ico - or his browser is confused. A myriad of reasons why other AOL users don't see the same thing. A shift+reload may help.

I don't use windows - does "branding" allow the brander to override all favicons for all websites?

Rick

 

[BrendanS]

branding can be pretty horrific, though most providers have toned it down these days.

You used to have things like 'Outlook, provided by Freeserve' and Internet Explorer, provided by Freeserve' stuck on top of bars, favourites lists with huges lists of providers links inserted etc etc, and you had to use automatic installers, so all this done for you, as they wouldn't hand out manual settings.

Fairly easy to remove, but very annoying.