Subj : Browser Scareware To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Dec 08 2022 07:10:00 Hi Daryl! BM> Yes - the initial thought is to take the helpful link presented: after BM> all, the computer is so smart, right?! DS> Not when it comes to speech/voice recognition software. I've DS> not yet been able to use that, and do a complete email message, DS> without having to go back and correct things. Probably can drill down to "not yet perfected". Verbal communication is a lot of guesswork: take "I like it too!". OK, in text we have a cue: 'too" is 'also'. With sound could be to, too, or two. So "I like it - two!" or possible "I like it to !" And then the poor machine has another complication: external sounds. Here I have music playing in the background, Others might have a TV. ANd my cell phone just gave me an alert, so another potential word has been given Accents can probably confuse: I have retained the New England 'R', so it's "idear" for 'idea'. BM> I'm not so sure AdBlock Plus is all that good: when I first started BM> using it a few years back it did a good job and then as time continued BM> it seemed ot be allowing through more ads. Read where it now has a BM> list of 'approved' (read: 'paid') ad it will let through. A few months BM> ago I switched to uBlock and things have quited down again. DS> I took it off, and deleted all the YouTube videos...I just DS> didn't have time to watch them. And now more room to store other stuff! BM> I've found one can sometimes use Private/Incognito Mode: sometimes BM> skips as not recognizing the device (no prior cookie) or have to wait a BM> few seconds and then can click 'skip ad'. BM> As for the costs, agree they have them and so need to be financed some BM> how. Less might be more: five second ad at the beginning isn't BM> intolerable. (The 'coming attractions' pop-ups at the very end of BM> video are sometimes more annoying as the block what I'm trying to BM> watch.) DS> And, in a lot of the YouTube Videos, they insert a ton of ads DS> in the videos. I can't see paying $15 a month ($180 a year) just DS> to override the ads. All depends. I don't watch enough to make it worthwhile to pay to override. OTOH I do pay a few dollars for Pandora so I don't run out of time, have the occasional commercial, etc. All depends on perceived value. BM> Good. I've found the telephone spammers will use different numbers -- BM> half-wonder if two different spam groups or the same one, DS> There are several spam prevention services for landlines and DS> cellphones, as well as for computers. I used to use the DS> MailWasher Pro from Firetrust software, but I'm on Gmail now. Doens't ring a bell. Some of the selection is based on Operating System: Windows stuff generally doesn't do me much good as I use Ubuntu (Linux). Ease of use (a.k.a. do I understand how to configure and use?) make a lot of difference too. ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... I was called lazy today - I almost responded. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .