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The impudence of Microsoft has reached new (criminal?) heights
SilverSolder:
LOL that's funny.
I know a guy who used to work in marketing for a tobacco company. Over a few beers, he was explaining how all the different brands they sold were essentially the same product, how the "feeling" or "lifestyle" that was being marketed was the main difference.
The example that really stuck in my mind: For people that hate advertising... they had a brand that they never advertised or promoted in any way, it was just put on the shelves along with all the regular brands of cigarettes. The "ad haters" would happily buy this product to avoid feeling manipulated...
At that point I gave up, and just ordered another beer! :D
rsjsouza:
I found the following:
user@host:~$ traceroute www.duckduckgo.com
traceroute to www.duckduckgo.com (40.89.244.232), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 router (192.168.0.1) 6.144 ms 6.326 ms 6.308 ms
2 gateway.home (192.168.254.254) 6.491 ms 6.473 ms 6.455 ms
3 47.184.128.1 (47.184.128.1) 16.556 ms 18.582 ms 18.566 ms
4 172.102.50.212 (172.102.50.212) 13.711 ms 13.694 ms 172.102.52.90 (172.102.52.90) 11.301 ms
5 ae8---0.scr02.dlls.tx.frontiernet.net (74.40.3.25) 13.646 ms ae7---0.scr01.dlls.tx.frontiernet.net (74.40.3.17) 8.865 ms 13.610 ms
6 ae1---0.cbr01.dlls.tx.frontiernet.net (74.40.1.82) 13.598 ms 12.437 ms 11.399 ms
7 static-74-43-96-185.fnd.frontiernet.net (74.43.96.185) 11.310 ms 8.929 ms 11.232 ms
8 ae26-0.icr04.dsm05.ntwk.msn.net (104.44.233.68) 27.854 ms 27.832 ms 27.743 ms
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user@host:~$
The msn.net says it all.
rsjsouza:
Good story, SilverSolder.
One detail, though: nobody truly hates advertising - after all, the internet as we know it is sponsored by it, with all its free goodies and information. |O
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on July 10, 2020, 01:56:53 pm ---Good story, SilverSolder.
One detail, though: nobody truly hates advertising - after all, the internet as we know it is sponsored by it, with all its free goodies and information. |O
--- End quote ---
Agree - I don't actually hate advertising either. I do hate being tracked and stalked, though. It irritates some deep instinct, like you are being hunted or something.
rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: joeqsmith on July 10, 2020, 12:56:59 pm ---I posted back when Microsoft duped my wife using their deceptive popup tactics into changing the OS on her laptop. This was prior to my locking down all MS traffic. Since then she has moved to a MAC. It's rare to see her use the Windows PC.
--- End quote ---
I moved my wife's computer to Windows 8.1 Pro - it is quite easier to keep up and I can turn off much more stuff. Also, it still works fine on her eight year old Toshiba ultrabook Z935 (a fine machine). However, I foresee her having to re-adapt to a Linux machine (she was a developer in a past life) or to a mac of sorts - not sure how that will go down.
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