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| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: joeqsmith on July 11, 2020, 02:51:41 pm ---Ran into this with my XP laptop. Get to the race track, the battery would be dead. The virus scanner I had installed was able to wake the PC is run it down. Shit software. It appears with the last round of updates to the browser and OS, there are some new IPs that the PC wants to send data to which are also marketing firms. Amazon for example. So, for example, not being on Amazons site at all, they seem to be collecting some data as well. There are others. A really odd one is LinkedIn. I have never had an account with them and have no interest in the services they provide. I wonder what information they could possible find useful. --- End quote --- LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft - maybe they see an opportunity for a "better Facebook" down the road? |
| joeqsmith:
Really, I didn't know that. My ignorance of social media is based on my lack of giving a rats ass about it. :-DD |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: joeqsmith on July 11, 2020, 06:46:10 pm ---Really, I didn't know that. My ignorance of social media is based on my lack of giving a rats ass about it. :-DD --- End quote --- They bought it, not that long ago. - Ignoring social media is a good way of remaining sane! :D |
| Red Squirrel:
Windows 10 is basically malware, I don't get why so many people put up with it. Just hearing all the crap they pull off pisses me off enough to never want to touch that junk. And MS needs to give up with their failed IE experiment. Renaming it to something else is not going to change the fact that it's a crappy browser. They need to just give it up and ship with Firefox or something. |
| tom66:
Edge is a good browser, based on Chromium. But, people are right to be skeptical of Microsoft's intentions with Edge. They want it to be dominant so they can dictate standards like Google does, and I'd sooner trust Google's standards intention (generally favouring open standards although certainly not privacy-centric) than Microsoft's. |
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