The grumpy thread

[cort16]

I've got yahoomail and it's FUCKING SHITE. 

[AlabamaShrimp]

First thing to do is scrap Chrome if you have it.

 

Install Firefox and then the Ghostery addon. When it runs through the setup wizard, use it to block everything but don't switch on GhostRank (think it's disabled by default).

 

Next install Adblock plus and on the first setup page,switch on the Social Media plugins blocker (basically stops Farcebook from spying on you on unrelated pages), switch on the malware protection. Then go into Tools > Addons, go into the options of Adblock plus and switch off the "allow some non intrusive advertising" option.

 

That will block most nasties, I use some extras like RequestPolicy, BetterPrivacy, NoScript and Cookie Monster but RP, NS and CM aren't for the feint hearted, most websites will load as a white page with some times new roman text.

 

I don't have anything to hide, but wasted so much of my life cleaning so many PCs that have been hosed through infected Flash adverts/Java running willy nilly that all the ad companies can do one, they must owe me hundreds of thousands of pounds for my unpaid time cleaning their shit off by now.

While all of this is really useful most people either can work all this stuff, are too "thick" to work it all out or why it's needed or are just apathetic to it all as in "I've nothing to hide".

 

Problem for me is that my phone has taken over as my main computer and apart from plain old antivirus there's nothing else to easily block stuff on Android

[AnthonyG]

Hotmail has got a lot less annoying in the last year or so, I'm not really sure why. It doesn't seem to ask me anything or try and sell me things, there are few pop-ups, and I have an account name/email address closely related to my own name due to signing up in 2001. I will never leave until/unless MS actually shut it down. Hopefully since it has been recently rebranded to associate it with a major MS money-spinner (Outlook) it will continue for some time yet.

[Pillock]

Hotmail were quite vocal about how they don't target ads based on email content when Google announced that's how they were doing things.

I've got my.name @ both gmail and hotmail and prefer gmail - I don't care that they read my emails, I find it quite useful when my phone reminds me of things I'd forgotten etc.

[HillmanImp]

I couldn't really give a toss who knows where I am or what I look at on t'interweb, unless they use it to come round my house and burgle it whilst I am away daubing 'I LUV VOXALLS' over the livingroom wall in their own excrement but even then, I am insured and the front room could do with a lick of paint and I quite fancy a playstation 4, so would get over it pretty quick even if they did use the data for that which TBH I am pretty sure they are not.

 

At the moment they are just using it to target me to put some adverts for a fucking 'bow lamp' whatever that is, and some Shampoo on Facebook which just goes to show they have no fucking clue as I don't need a lamp and I am bald as a coot.

 

It was all in the news with that American chaps shock revelations that the governments were spying on our internet use the other year. WOW! THAT WAS A SURPRISE! Of course it wasn't, we have always known that they do that since the internet became a part of everyday life. I remember my mates and me typing loads of stuff in that was meant to flag up at GCHQ into our computer for a laugh nearly 20 years ago (which in hindsight was pretty stupid considering the illegal shit we were into at the time in case they did raid our house) but I have never had any problems because I am now on some sort of government sanction listing.  

 

I can honestly say that I have no idea what these people that gather the data do with it but really cannot see what the issue is if all they do is target you for advertising based upon your internet history but they don't even seem to be very good at that, as if they had been looking properly then I would be inundated with adverts for sex toys, lesbian porn films and Talbot Solaras.

 

I think people get confused about the level of interest that other people have in them. It was CCTV before this t'interweb shizzle. You will aIway's get some people that will use any sort of technological development for crime etc but these people would be up to some sort of criminal activity anyhow internet or not and you will always have to be unlucky to succumb to crime, you just need to take the more obvious precautions like good virus protection in the same way that you would lick lock your front door. If you leave your door unlocked you are likely to get robbed by an opportunist.

 

I can't see the government or anyone else using the data to manipulate the country as a whole into turning into some sort of robotic hive because 28% of males between the ages of 20 and 30 have watched Dirty Debbies Dogging Diaries, there will just be someone at at CGHQ who thinks, fuck that's popular, I've not seen that and has a good old spank to it when he or she gets home. The public seem to forget that the people who work in government are the same people they work with everyday who send letters selling life insurance out to dead people (this happened at my office today) which is why every single huge government project ends up in a massive overspend and every single government organization seems to be in a shambles. People are in charge and people are pretty crap and really do make it up as they go along.

[MrDuke]

you just need to take the more obvious precautions like good virus protection in the same way that you would lick your front door.

 

Surely a toilet seat would be a better way of testing your 'virus protection'?

[skattrd]

I have adblock & ghostery installed and also zenmate on FF. I use Zenmate to change my location to watch certain vids etc, but sometimes leave it set to foreign places to confuse the trackers.

[cros]

You want to put a pendant on your todger!!!!!

No, its for my old chap's old chap.

[chaseracer]

Got a prop shaft on a Fleetline to re fit and finish the body on one of the Lothian Tridents today. (I know this will only mean something to bus people but, hey, I'm not in the mood to hunt for pics)

 

Gawd 'elp me, I nearly understood what he said... 

[Inspector Morose]

Been walking around looking like I've got a whiplash claim pending. Half a bottle of herbal schnapps and half a packet of industrial strength pain killing drugs seem to have taken the edge off things though.

[fred]

Went on Book face just afore xmas,

didnt want them to know where I live, or my name

So Live in Pendine sands, and called Z. E. Anunkanunka

Problem is now Im sure Im getting folk from IS trying to add me as a friend

[Inspector Morose]

If you disable location services in Facebook, you can manually enter where you are. Many a time I've been on a holiday* or a trip* somewhere fancy for a day to two and people, who should have known better, asked how the trip was.

[andy18s]

I read through the thread on donating sperm on here not long ago and now have farcebook suggesting various sperm donor groups to me! !!!! That took some explaining to the other half!

[Parky]

Another argument with the wife.......hey ho, here comes four days of stilted awkwardness.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Sort of related to the above. Why are most woman so sodding weird? What I mean is a lot of them seem interested in exactly fuck all. They don't have hobbies*, they don't follow anything, as in a sport or even specific telly programmes, they don't know about what's happening in the news and can be pretty thick* when it comes to just knowing general knowledge stuff. But they can get a shit on with you for the least littlest thing.

 

I know this is a sweeping statement that's not true in all cases, but like the marshmallow man, it just popped in there.

[Parky]

Like Popeye or Degas (one or the other) I am what I am and sadly even if I have better looks and body and vast amounts of disposable, I'm still me. Mrs P just doesn't understand that even if I was Channing Tatum, I would still be sitting here drinking tea and surfing Autoshite

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Sort of related to the above. Why are most woman so sodding weird? What I mean is a lot of them seem interested in exactly fuck all. They don't have hobbies*, they don't follow anything, as in a sport or even specific telly programmes, they don't know about what's happening in the news and can be pretty thick* when it comes to just knowing general knowledge stuff. But they can get a shit on with you for the least littlest thing.

 

I know this is a sweeping statement that's not true in all cases, but like the marshmallow man, it just popped in there.

Is this your insomnia speaking again??? Get to bed!!!

[AlabamaShrimp]

I am in bed! The wonders of the Internet on your phone!

[AlabamaShrimp]

OK another stupid question. Why are some people proud that they know fuck all? Given them a map and ask where is something and they always give the same kind of answer and laugh it off....

[steve_earwig]

Ahem: Edgar Degas s s. Now put down that electrical-appliance catalogue and concentrate!

 

John Stewart Mill of his own free will on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill,

Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whisky every day,

Aristotle, Aristotle, was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink therefore I am."

[Parky]

There's nothing Nietszche couldn't teach yer about the raising of the wrist

A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed

[Cavcraft]

OK another stupid question. Why are some people proud that they know fuck all? Given them a map and ask where is something and they always give the same kind of answer and laugh it off....

It's probably to make light of their lack of knowledge. I do it when it comes to things like Greography, and sometimes years of having people laugh at you because you don't know the capital city of a small country, or where to find it on a map, grinds you down a bit. Nobody is perfect.

[steve_earwig]

Plus, if you play down your knowledge/skills nobody expects you to do anything.

 

Oh, and may even do stuff for you, if you appear pathetic enough.

[Vin]

Sort of related to the above. Why are most woman so sodding weird? What I mean is a lot of them seem interested in exactly fuck all. They don't have hobbies*, they don't follow anything, as in a sport or even specific telly programmes, they don't know about what's happening in the news and can be pretty thick* when it comes to just knowing general knowledge stuff. But they can get a shit on with you for the least littlest thing.

 

I know this is a sweeping statement that's not true in all cases, but like the marshmallow man, it just popped in there.

 

Ha. Don't worry about it AS...The only people who understand women are other women. Yet even then they all fuggin hate each other...

[Cavcraft]

Why is it hard to comprehend some people don't watch films?

''Do you remember that bit in Star Wars 3 where that bloke came into the craft?'

 

I don't really watch films.

 

'Wasnt it great when he pulled that light sabre out'

 

I don't really watch films.

 

'You know, it was where Sigourney Weaver was wearing a white t-shirt and black trousers'

 

I don't really watch films.

 

'But you must remember that'

 

I DONT REALLY FUCKING WATCH MANY FILMS.

[AlabamaShrimp]

It weren't just geography I was getting at it can be anything really. Think of it more as not not knowing something, but the disinterest in learning.

[steve_earwig]

Why is it hard to comprehend some people don't watch films?

''Do you remember that bit in Star Wars 3 where that bloke came into the craft?'

 

I don't really watch films.

 

 

 

That reminds me of when I used to burble on to my mate about bits I'd seen in tv shows the night before, even though he'd told me 100 times he didn't actually have a telly. I just kept on going/couldn't help myself//probably didn't have anything else to talk about... Feel a bit stupid about it now but I was only 10.

 

Star Wars 3? Is that the 3rd they made one which would be part 6 or the sixth one they made which would actually be part 3? (only kidding, I only saw the first one, it's for kids.)

[Bren]

Besides crap cars I have a healthy interest in astronomy.

 

I remarked that if I had absolutely no family I would have made the trip to mars that was publicised in the press earlier in the week - even though it is one way. It's called human endeavour and the spirit of exploration.

 

Everyone thinks I am strange - what person would'nt want to get away from traffic jams, starbucks, x factor and Keith Lemon?

[dollywobbler]

Ha. Don't worry about it AS...The only people who understand women are other women. Yet even then they all fuggin hate each other...

 

I don't get this. Some women appear to be quite normal and predictable. They're not all mad. Though thinking about it, when I consider past girlfriends, some of them really are absolutely crackers. Having had very little experience of dating men, I've no idea if we're all sane or not. Given that we spend so much time chatting about rubbish cars, perhaps we're not.

[Alan_Green]

OK another stupid question. Why are some people proud that they know fuck all? Given them a map and ask where is something and they always give the same kind of answer and laugh it off....

Chris Rock reference, right?:   http://youtu.be/f3PJF0YE-x4?t=3m1s