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Today I was standing in line at the Post Office. Old guy in front of me had a Microsoft Server 2008 jacket on, and we started talking about various aspects of good, bad, and ugly of the various MS offerings.Come to find out every person in the line still uses XP, as does the cashier at the PO desk.All of us older, none of us interested in "new and improved" O/S.
Startling.
Another thing I have noticed.....FireFox....new and improved...and it su....err...is not nearly as useful as before. First, they don't allow usage with XP past 52ESR.
Then, they cut out use of older add-ons in newer versions that REALLY worked well.
AdBlockPlus, with Element Hiding Helper. Have to load old versions of FF to get them, like the version I am using now.
RIP...Remove It Permanently. Block out all sorts of annoying stuff. Yesterday I found a new function with it, where instead of RIP'ing a page or a block, you can select an ITEM and block it, and it stays blocked.
All part of the Brave New World, I'm afraid. "We don't support" this any more, so websites tell you you have to update....so you change the settings on your User-Agent Switcher, and it works just fine.
It's all hogwash. The "marketing" aspects from Windoze 10 with a "unique advertising ID" assigned to your computer, to FacePlant using cookies to track you across the web, and Amazon (Spamazon), google. They hate that we can use things like AdBlockPlus and RIP. Been to sites that will NOT let you in unless you disable your adblocker...so I close the window instead.
NOT playing the game.
Startling.
Another thing I have noticed.....FireFox....new and improved...and it su....err...is not nearly as useful as before. First, they don't allow usage with XP past 52ESR.
Then, they cut out use of older add-ons in newer versions that REALLY worked well.
AdBlockPlus, with Element Hiding Helper. Have to load old versions of FF to get them, like the version I am using now.
RIP...Remove It Permanently. Block out all sorts of annoying stuff. Yesterday I found a new function with it, where instead of RIP'ing a page or a block, you can select an ITEM and block it, and it stays blocked.
All part of the Brave New World, I'm afraid. "We don't support" this any more, so websites tell you you have to update....so you change the settings on your User-Agent Switcher, and it works just fine.
It's all hogwash. The "marketing" aspects from Windoze 10 with a "unique advertising ID" assigned to your computer, to FacePlant using cookies to track you across the web, and Amazon (Spamazon), google. They hate that we can use things like AdBlockPlus and RIP. Been to sites that will NOT let you in unless you disable your adblocker...so I close the window instead.
NOT playing the game.