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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 19:26:34 JST Aral Balkan

   Wow, it looks like virginmedia.ie have completely broken their sign up process.

   You select a package and when you hit checkout it says “Please Select Product First”

   Capitalists failing at the basics of capitalism. *smh*

   #ireland #virginMedia

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 19:34:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     Looks like their whole site is messed up.

     #VirginMedia #ireland

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 19:42:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     And with code like this, should anyone be surprised?

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

   • jaKa Močnik (jkmcnk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 19:52:02 JST jaKa Močnik

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

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 19:52:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • jaKa Močnik

     @jkmcnk Mainstream mediocrity.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 20:06:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     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.

     #ireland #virginMedia

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 20:29:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     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

   • Tim B (tlb73@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 20:38:20 JST Tim B

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

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 20:38:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tim B

     @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

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 21:10:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Cristian

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

   • Cristian (cmsirbu@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 21:10:46 JST Cristian

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     @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 Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 21:12:55 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Annika Backstrom

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

   • Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 21:12:56 JST Annika Backstrom

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