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Post by chris on Jul 1, 2014 12:22:09 GMT -5
Dave I already did at the top of the page but never thought to check resources code... But today I longed into it the weather was from Rochester, NY Someone is playing games with my head.  When I say homepage it is the page you are brought to when you first log onto the Internet. My ISP is Frontier and when I first signed up for Frontier I used their page (homepage) and it was Frontiernet.com then they went with Yahoo as their power source. Yahoo has since changes things several times. I do not sign into Yahoo unless I wish to read my mail. In the sign in I can sign into Yahoo mail or Frontier mail (two different email addresses but same sign in) Does this make sense (more clear). I have always gone into Tools>options and >use current page but somehow it gets changed sometimes. I thought if I say use current homepage it should stay that way if I save and apply |
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Post by dave on Jul 2, 2014 9:21:22 GMT -5
You're right on both counts. Once you choose a starting (home) page it should stay that way. But some programs and websites change it. They may be able to point to something you said "yes" to when installing a program, without your knowing it of course.
I've noticed the download sites have now hidden stuff you would ordinarily say no to (like an annoying toolbar.) They hide it behind the so called "express installation" they always recommend you use. I never do, but instead take the long route so I can say No or Decline to often 5 or 6 offers of trash that if I had taken the express route would have been a tacit agreement on my part for the site to put so many pieces of crap on my computer. (My "favorite" is the shopper toolbar that always points to the same websites that are paying to have you hoodwinked.) They even word the "decline" so that it seems you're declining the download, but hit it anyway. You can always download it again.
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Post by chris on Jul 12, 2014 10:17:40 GMT -5
The page has reverted back to Albany, NY.....maybe I should just move there. hahahaha
Oh and looking at it right now it is reading Hornell,NY...I give up!
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Post by dave on Jul 12, 2014 12:38:16 GMT -5
The page has reverted back to Albany, NY.....maybe I should just move there. hahahaha Oh and looking at it right now it is reading Hornell,NY...I give up! You'd miss the lake, but be closer to the Adirondacks. Probably less snow to your east, however.  |
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Post by chris on Jul 13, 2014 16:08:44 GMT -5
Yahoo is driving me crazy. Today I saw an article on Yahoo and wanted to mail the page to my sister so I had to log in. It then prompted me to change my password so I did and then it asked me for my cell phone # when I had to verify the robot box. I don't have a # to give them (well refuse to hand that one out) So I thought I wasn't logged in only to back arrow and find out I was in my mailbox. (yes I have a Yahoo account...don't use it and just deleted all the spam in there and logged out) Now I am going to call Yahoo to find out what they plan on doing for people with no cell # to give them. If they want to buy me a phone and pay the bill they can gladly have my cell#.
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Post by chris on Jul 13, 2014 16:11:26 GMT -5
Oh and now the page reads Hornell NY  |
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Post by dave on Jul 13, 2014 17:35:32 GMT -5
You're getting the tour. If they insist on a phone number or cell number from me. I'll close my account. I do use it. One of our local writing groups send out our meeting schedules on a Yahoo group along with writing submitted in advance for critique. I'll find a way around it though.
The purpose of all this is to sell your name along with information they can infer from other data linked to yours. Linking will be the death of civilized society.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2014 9:43:53 GMT -5
I noticed that facebook also asks me for a mobile phone number. I don't have a cell phone so I have no mobile number. It wouldn't make any difference anyway cause I don't use my real name on facebook. I see no reason to give up any information on me just so they can sell my name. It is funny cause I get all these suggestions to add people to my friend list because they think they know me. Ha Ha
MSN tell me Syracuse weather and never saves my favority city which is Marthas Vineyard. Chris computers like to play games with your head so have some fun with them.
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Post by Clipper on Jul 17, 2014 8:40:46 GMT -5
I use a yahoo email account as my primary email. I have had the cell phone number thing pop up on several occasions and have thus far been able to avoid giving them one. Like Dave, if and when it becomes a necessity to provide a cell number, I will close the account and move to a different source. I would suppose that one could opt for their ISP's email service, but I have never tried it, nor do I know anything about the reliability or the positives and negatives to be encountered with such a move. Has anyone had any experience with Charter.net or with a local internet provider's email service? Is there any difference between that and the major email providers like MSN, Yahoo, and Google?
I have considered changing email providers simply because of the Spam problems with Yahoo. A friend had sent me an email from a Canadian mail order pharmacy several years ago where he was obtaining his blood pressure meds and other run of the mill maintenance drugs. I inquired about the prices of my daily prescription drugs, and ever since then I have been bombarded with spam trying to sell me vitamins, Testosterone replacement drugs, woman's beauty products from a Canadian source in Toronto, protein supplements, fitness equipment, and on and on. It seems that ONE such spammy source can snowball, with each source reselling your email addy until you are inundated with a daily load of crap to delete. I truly believe that one inquiry to that one source of prescription drugs has been the root from which a major portion of the spam has sprouted. Thank you Yahoo.
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Post by chris on Jul 17, 2014 9:40:23 GMT -5
Clipper I think no matter what email service you have there is absolutely no way of getting totally away from spam mail. AOL was always good with my spam but recently I have seen an increase in Spam delivered straight to my email folder instead of the spam folder. The same spam's are on my ISP email account (Frontier) Genie bra's and pharmacy and doors. I don't use this account so not sure where they get the info to spam me. I go in everyday to delete the 50 to 100 spams in there. My guess it's from Yahoo and FB and Google who scan your emails for data. (ever notice when you look up something on the Internet all of a sudden you have ads for same products you looked at following you around where ever you go on the Internet. So annoying. You can go to startpage.com for a browser that will let you surf annomously so no one can drop those cookies. (I always forget to use it though)
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jul 17, 2014 10:32:24 GMT -5
I use a yahoo email account as my primary email. I have had the cell phone number thing pop up on several occasions and have thus far been able to avoid giving them one. Like Dave, if and when it becomes a necessity to provide a cell number, I will close the account and move to a different source. I would suppose that one could opt for their ISP's email service, but I have never tried it, nor do I know anything about the reliability or the positives and negatives to be encountered with such a move. Has anyone had any experience with Charter.net or with a local internet provider's email service? Is there any difference between that and the major email providers like MSN, Yahoo, and Google? I have considered changing email providers simply because of the Spam problems with Yahoo. A friend had sent me an email from a Canadian mail order pharmacy several years ago where he was obtaining his blood pressure meds and other run of the mill maintenance drugs. I inquired about the prices of my daily prescription drugs, and ever since then I have been bombarded with spam trying to sell me vitamins, Testosterone replacement drugs, woman's beauty products from a Canadian source in Toronto, protein supplements, fitness equipment, and on and on. It seems that ONE such spammy source can snowball, with each source reselling your email addy until you are inundated with a daily load of crap to delete. I truly believe that one inquiry to that one source of prescription drugs has been the root from which a major portion of the spam has sprouted. Thank you Yahoo. My original email account was with my original ISP, Compuserve. When I switched to a different ISP Compuserve immediately closed my email account. Since then I've avoided using the free account provided by any ISP. Since then I've had one primary account but multiple other accounts using several of the free services. Yahoo has always been my least favorite. All of the services let some spam through but I always seem to get more with Yahoo accounts. That combined with other hassles I've had with Yahoo accounts has led me to discontinue using them. Other people however seem just fine with them. Gmail has a lot of features I like and doesn't seem to attract a lot of random spam. A downside is that Google is always reading over your shoulder. I have a Gmail account set up for my business as lodge secretary. The address is published on several web sites but attracts no spam other than the occasional missive from Google. A feature I use on Gmail accounts is the ability to auto-forward to another account. If a company asks for my email and I don't feel like giving it to them, I'll give them a throw-away Gmail address and forward it to my main account. If I start getting a lot of spam I shut off the auto-forward. I used to get a lot of spam on my Hotmail accounts. I had uncounted numbers of addresses blocked, had reached the limit of 500 blocked domains and reported at least a half dozen phishing scams per day. About a year ago all Hotmail accounts were transferred to Outlook.com. It was completely transparent to me, still Microsoft, but spam dropped by 90%. |
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Post by Clipper on Jul 17, 2014 10:58:25 GMT -5
Thanks Clarence. Very useful info. I will probably try Outlook.com and Gmail. I simply have to get up the ambition to move my contacts and notify those that I normally communicate with by email. One of the problems I encountered when I was hacked on hotmail and closed that account and opened a new account elsewhere was that some of my other accounts and other websites had my hotmail address as the address used when I registered for them. When I went to change a password I ran across serious difficulty in some cases. I guess that is the liability connected with any email provider.
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Post by dave on Jul 17, 2014 11:02:38 GMT -5
Google is probably reading over our shoulders no matter who owns our mail service. We never know whose servers our mail and data is going through and Google has a bunch of them all over the earth.
Because I make my name and email public (a writer thrives on publicity) I get loads of spam. But Mozzilla's Thunderbird does a pretty good job of learning what to me is spam and what isn't and then sorts the stuff into a trash bucket.
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Post by chris on Jul 19, 2014 14:56:13 GMT -5
I have a gmail account too but only cause my brother uses it and uses the call feature that I use also when I have to make long distance calls. (it's like Skype) So that is the only time I go to gmail.
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