gripes

[ericm979]

The new Chrome lets google track you and sell that info to advertisers: New Google Chrome Targeted Ad Tracking—Here’s How To Stop It

Rumor in the security world is that this new feature is allowing bad actors to send malware to browsers. I haven't seen any articles yet but it sounds like a bad exploit. At this point Google has dropped the "don't" from "don't be evil". I try to have as little to do with them as possible.

there are two "ad blocker" browser add-ons. One or both of them allow ads from companies that have paid it, which kind of defeats the purpose. I switched to ublock, which seems to do a better job anyhow.

 

[cbg8670]

I use Firefox, with an ad blocker. That does not stop the McAfee popup. Maybe I need to use a different one?

Can you Uninstall the mcafee.

 

[wmfamily]

Can you Uninstall the mcafee.

That is most likely the issue. Some of these programs are as bad as the malware. I don't install the junk to begin with or uninstall it without ever activating it.

 

[reb]

Can you Uninstall the mcafee.

Did not think of that. Just uninstalled it.

 

[jjeff]

Kind of a drift but definitely a gripe/ rant, it's becoming more apparent that technology hates me especially when I'm trying to accomplish something constructive and somewhat important at my mind numbingly boring desk job.