Posted on 08/25/2013 10:19:18 PM PDT by Windflier
Many companies use dark pattern techniques to make it difficult to find how to delete your account. JustDelete.me aims to be a directory of urls to enable you to easily delete your account from web services.
Bflr
groan....
This is why I regularly archive off all my FR traffic.
Eventually I had to remove Ghostery, completely uninstall Firefox, delete all vestiges of Firefox from the computer, and then reinstall it. The lagging finally quit but I'm fearful of putting Ghostery back on because of the same thing happening again.
New versions of Firefox create as many problems as it resolves.
I have read of some problems with v23 or whatever that latest is.
I primarily run v15, because later versions conflicted with Adobe Flash and would not download PDF files. Many of the extensions don’t work with later versions and many developers gave up trying to keep up.
Mozilla has taken a good browser and basically wrecked it with their rapid release insanity.
I have used Maxthon in the past and I use it now for job hunting. I use IE for logging into government websites (since I am a federal employee I can use a common access card at home) and into FB to chat with family, and Firefox for everything else.
What else is out there except for Safari and Opera?
You'll have better luck learning to fly by flapping your arms and jumping off a cliff.
The only way I know of to truly get yourself off the internet is to disappear one day and tell NO ONE, take a new name (don't change it legally), lose all your contacts, family, friends, history, bank accounts, material assets.... start over from scratch....
And then stay the hell off the internet!!! Otherwise you're gonna start it all over again by looking your old self up, and inadvertently creating a link to your new self. Dumb, dumb, dumb, ...
You weren't supposed to take the title literally...
Well, sure, I was having a little fun there... sort of....
Fact is, I was describing my own situation. I'm totally screwed. I've been active on the internet since the 80's, VAX mail at Cornell, CompuServe, bought my first domains and built my first websites in 1996 using Emacs and Mosaic. I still have the same personal email address today that I set up then (independent of ISP), and it's freakin' EVERYWHERE, every spammer's list on the planet, every search engine. I get around 400 spams a day, and thank God for the Barracuda, I only see a handful.
I've got accounts in places most people don't even know exist, accounts I've long since forgotten. Digging back through 15-year old email from vendors is always an adventure ("Hey lookit that! I remember that!").
What's scary is when the old password still works. Back from the days where passwords were stored unencrypted because the internet was a much more innocent place.
I am SO screwed.
*SIGH*
Just as many of the addons merely say they don’t. We have a few that refused to work til we edited the file to not forcibly stop working merely because of the version, and they fine after that was done.
Ghostery started using 50% of the CPU on one of my machines. Maybe the same problem. Removed it and went back to Noscript for a somewhat similar purpose. Noscript has additional benefit of freeing memory and improving performance because unwanted scripts are not even loaded.
Usually clearing out the directory where personal Firefox settings are stored fixes these problems but is too much hassle — passwords, etc.
Ghostery blocked too many things, I feel, and thereby made several webpages not even load. Perhaps it did it's job "too well?" I liked Ghostery, but if it is indeed to blame for slowing my computer down then I won't use it.
Would you mind giving me a little help...I may have over-looked it in the various Sand Box files....how do you make the strike out line ... through a word? Many thanks!
yoe
Like that, just delete the spaces between the brackets. It's "s" for strike, "/s" for end strike.
Hi Yoe. The HTML for a strikeout looks like this, minus the spaces:
< strike > word < /strike >
Many thanks to both #34 & #35.
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