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I just want to use my computer

Dec 24, 2010 11:59AM PST

HOW DO PEOPLE GET STUFF ONTO MY MACHINE IN MY HOME WITHOUT MY CONSENT THAT TAKES AWAY MY TIME.

I have to clear out double click and other cookies all the time. Everytime I go online some JERK puts crap on my machine without my consent and against my will.
I feel violated to the fullest. I want it to stop.
I want to punch the MFr who puts ANYTHING AT ALL!!! on my machine.,
I WANT A LAW AGAINST IT.
when my machine runs well with your buulshit tracking cookies, I won't mind. UNTIL THEN STOP SCREWING UP MY REGISTRY AND MY CACHE AND MY LIFE *******!

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Try something else?
Dec 25, 2010 2:17AM PST

Many people when they reach this stage move to some iPad or Apple machine.

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Ugh...
Dec 27, 2010 12:25AM PST

So Mac's are somehow immune to tracking cookies? Really? That's a new one by me. Maybe we should all get Macs so then we'd live in the Utopian world where nothing ever goes wrong and we have perfect security, and hackers would never ever try to propagate trojans and viruses because...well...they're Macs after all, and who would do that to a Mac?

This is all just silly. The guy's got a beef with tracking cookies. That's a matter of user-selected security settings in the browser, no matter the OS and no matter browser. Almost every browser has a "Private" mode now where cookies aren't even stored in the session.

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You're right.
Dec 27, 2010 12:39AM PST

It may be silly but I'm encountering folk that want a PC that works like a water fountain. No muss or fuss, just press the button and out comes the water.

They don't want to know about collecting water, the storage, treatment or delivery systems or how security of the water supply works. They just want the water.

Today's PCs (with Windows) has us learning to install some internet software or access (water delivery) as well as security software or at times remove pests from the machine. A lot of folk don't want this.

The Apple solutions tend to be closer to getting water at the restaurant where you are served but pay a premium.
Bob