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Snuffman posted:Antiquated programs derail chat: Has CCleaner been depreciated? They haven't ruined it with ads (yet), and it does useful things still so probably not? Unless somebody can prove me wrong and provide an alternative that's better somehow.
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I don't remember exactly what CCleaner did, but I think Glary Utilities is similar and a bit more up to date? my bosses are obsessed with this stupid "System Mechanic" software and I keep trying to get them not to loving run it because I'm pretty sure it breaks more things than it "Fixes" even though it constantly comes up with "Your PC has problems! Yellow alert! Run it now!". Old people 
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The ublock intrigues me. I mostly use adblock + noscript still but I wouldn't mind something with less bloat if ublock doesn't need too much fine tuning. I still use a combination of MSE + Malware Bytes + Hijackthis for my general security. CCLeaner and JKdefrag for defragger...but if I recall correctly Microsoft bought the algorithm for jkdefrag rendering it useless.
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Holy poo poo Firefox is on iOS now. I live under a large rock.
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Darth123123 posted:Holy poo poo Firefox is on iOS now. I live under a large rock. Yeah, but you're still using webkit so its just Safari with a different coat of paint. Personally, I find with iCloud on PC finally supporting bookmark syncing with Firefox there's no real reason to use anything other than Safari on iOS. Session continuity I suppose?  In other Firefox news, they make their own ad blocker for iOS now but in my experience its not as good as Purify. We really should take this "software situation update chat" elsewhere. 
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Fiend posted:Yelp is firing all their Literary Science majors, their research department is probably next. I have no clue why Groupon and Yelp are still around
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etalian posted:I have no clue why Groupon and Yelp are still around I have no idea why Yelp would hire someone with a Literary Science degree.
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Snuffman posted:Yeah, but you're still using webkit so its just Safari with a different coat of paint.  apologies
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iPhones are literally circling the drain nationwide because girls keep them in their back pockets and probably 1 in 3 ends up in the toilet.
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reallivedinosaur posted:iPhones are literally circling the drain nationwide because girls keep them in their back pockets and probably 1 in 3 ends up in the toilet. I've never understood people that do this. Sitting on your $700 machine is cool and good - a retard
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Business Gorillas posted:I've never understood people that do this. Sitting on your $700 machine is cool and good - a retard Pockets on girl clothes are too small for big or regular sized phones
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etalian posted:I have no clue why Groupon and Yelp are still around But Yelp is still around because an absolute absurd amount of people use it to find places, and it has tremendous sway. And Yelp has a good money-making model of going around to small or other business at figurative gunpoint saying "give us money or we're going to alter the algorithm that shows more negative ratings and hide your positive ratings and.. you might.. suffer  ""Ok great, TY for your patronage! You have our protection!! Also now you have that, do you want to pay us $$ so we can make results for your business show up as #1?"
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reallivedinosaur posted:iPhones are literally circling the drain nationwide because girls keep them in their back pockets and probably 1 in 3 ends up in the toilet. I liked the Onion article about Apple selling to a special pre-cracked Iphone to college students.
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My last phone model was a Motorola Photon Q. I broke 3 screens over the 2 year contract, just in my pocket for no discernable reason. No matter how minor the screen break it became totally unresponsive. Good thing I paid for the insurance. My S6 got some minor cracks after I left it my pocket while wearing my fall restraint harness. That was back in October, atill haven't gone in to get my free replacement.
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is ccleaner just bloated as poo poo now and keeping with the theme of the things we are discussing in this thread? What's the alternative?Fiend posted:Yelp is firing all their Literary Science majors, their research department is probably next. I hate the company as a whole and their shady tactics but is there really any alternative? I knew a chef at a small restaurant and she said it would cost her boss $800/month to have 5 star reviews show first Nostalgia4Dogges has a new favorite as of 08:11 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:I hate the company as a whole and their shady tactics but is there really any alternative? They also charge money to remove negative ratings
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etalian posted:They also charge money to remove negative ratings "10 5 star reviews! 163 reviews that are not currently recommended"
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:is ccleaner just bloated as poo poo now and keeping with the theme of the things we are discussing in this thread? What's the alternative? It is still mostly usable. Business Gorillas posted:I've never understood people that do this. Sitting on your $700 machine is cool and good - a retard
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Aralan posted:It's a pretty safe bet that most free software that was good and useful 5+ years ago is now loaded with malware and would like to enhance your web surfing experience with injected ads and search bars uTorrent is a prime example of this. foxit PDF reader too.
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Sudo Echo posted:uTorrent is a prime example of this. foxit PDF reader too. Yup. Two big ones that immediately come to mind For those wondering (unless I'm missing something) Sumatra is the pdf program you want Does Adobe Acrobat still take 20 minutes to open a PDF
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etalian posted:I have no clue why Groupon and Yelp are still around Groupon died because word got out that it was basically suicide for any business to use it. Like anyone offering free anything (like a photographer offering a free 8x10) as an incentive would invariably get like a hundred customers who wanted the free thing and nothing else.
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Thanks to this thread I looked into whether or not I still had uTorrent on my computer.. it turns out I did! I tried removing it from A/R, but it told me I didn't have administrative privileges to remove it  I looked up some articles online and eventually found it in my Users folder, but it still wouldn't let me remove it because utorrenexie or something was running plus utorrent was still running somehow... I eventually found I had to stop whatever the exie thing was and remove utorrent from my hidden icons I think I finally got it, but drat it's creepy how hard they make it to remove This is a good thread, voted 5, tell me more useful things to do to my computer
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Professor Shark posted:Thanks to this thread I looked into whether or not I still had uTorrent on my computer.. it turns out I did! I tried removing it from A/R, but it told me I didn't have administrative privileges to remove it mu. mutorrent. μtorrent.
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Adix posted:http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/12/google-slams-avg-for-exposing-chrome-user-data-with-security-plugin/ That AVG forced-install web securities poo poo also had the great feature to backup your system. It was so efficient at making sure you had backups that some users reported that it would back up your drive, over and over again until all of your disk space was used. I was one of the fortunate users who had the bug occur. I look at my hard drive and see that I have less than 1MB left, search to see what the hell is going on, and find the AVG folder bloated with thousands of gigs of the same files copied over and over again. Their forums were also ablaze with people complaining. Who knows if they fixed it, I uninstalled that poo poo right away. It was a hard uninstall too.
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Xaris posted:Groupon is stupid and dying, only thing left are like lovely nail salon or "massage parlour" poo poo. I wish I could find a Groupon for the local rub and tug parlor.
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Unguided posted:AMD was a good, cheap alternative to Intel, now it's trash. AdBlock was good, now it's a resource hog that constantly begs for money. Some video card assembly companies were good, now they're known to make shoddy products. Avast antivirus was decent, now it's horrible. I think ASUS motherboards and corsair RAM have been the only constants
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you don't have to ditch utorrent entirely, just use an older version of it
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:mu. mutorrent. μtorrent. Nobody calls it that tho
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etalian posted:They also charge money to remove negative ratings Nostalgia4Dicks posted:I knew a chef at a small restaurant and she said it would cost her boss $800/month to have 5 star reviews show first wow I didn't know that; that's scuzzy as gently caress also kinda defeats the point of the app a bit
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Y-Hat posted:you don't have to ditch utorrent entirely, just use an older version of it Or you know, don't bother with finding ancient versions of software.
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FishionMailed posted:wow I didn't know that; that's scuzzy as gently caress The point of the app is to make app money. So no, that's exactly what the app is for.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:
nope, not missing a thing, just as perfect as it ever was. Casimir Radon posted:My last phone model was a Motorola Photon Q. I broke 3 screens over the 2 year contract, just in my pocket for no discernable reason. No matter how minor the screen break it became totally unresponsive. Good thing I paid for the insurance. Still using the DroidX I got in 2010 with it's original screen. Case is beat up, dented, and scratched to hell but, the screen is still perfect!  Well I did have a pixel go super nova a couple years ago and now there is a black hole slowly expanding out of the top left corner. I just switched to uBlock Origin for Chrome, Thanks for the tip!! This is still the best ad blocker ever. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm, been using it for over a decade. Its simple and it just works. If you are using UD add that one to your third party lists.
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steinrokkan posted:It even exists for Opera, nice. Speaking of companies circling the drain... their browser is now just a lovely chrome clone and they'll probably get bought out by some Chinese company. Although they did just 12.18 which to fix some SSL poo poo so that's pretty impressive.
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Y-Hat posted:you don't have to ditch utorrent entirely, just use an older version of it you don't HAVE to, sure, but it'd still be recommended to use a different program entirely for reasons involving it never being patched for exploits unless, of course, you somehow have a giant business built on torrenting and would need to upgrade and transition like 200 computers to deluge or something
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Solice Kirsk posted:The point of the app is to make app money. So no, that's exactly what the app is for. from a user's point of view obviously if I'm trying to figure out where to eat in a new town but now I know that a) they strongarm businesses into paying outrageous amounts of money and b) allow people to pay to have reviews removed or hidden (don't they explicitly say they don't do this??) then I'm not going to use the app I'm just going to use the Google reviews or whatever instead.
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mobby_6kl posted:Speaking of companies circling the drain... That's because they see that at this point there are more people still using Opera 12 than any other version of their lovely chrome clone. Maybe keeping it on life support for a future relaunch. The Otter Project is still going, https://otter-browser.org/ the hard core Opera Classic user base is still out there. I still use it.
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FishionMailed posted:from a user's point of view obviously Google Reviews sadly isn't used much. Yelp reviews are still useful but yeah you gotta look more at all or most of the reviews and see what people liked/did not like, and not just take the rating for granted.
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:mu. mutorrent. μtorrent. That's dumb
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