XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
   From: mayayana@invalid.nospam   
      
   "Steve Hayes"  wrote   
      
   | Yes, I have a Win 7 laptop with the latest firefox, but if someone   
   | posts a link with one of the now-fashionable long URLs, getting it   
   | across to the laptop to look at it is a schlep. And long URLs are find   
   | for the software that writes and reads long scripts, but is a pain for   
   | human readers.   
   |   
      
    Yes. I also hate to boot up other machines. I keep Win10 in   
   the closet for special cases. I keep Win7 in another room. I   
   mostly use them by keeping a list of URLs in a TXT file. Then   
   when I get enough, I boot up 7 or 10 and deal wuith them.   
      
     Maybe you know this, but many URLs are actually just spyware.   
   Typically only the part before ? is the link. The rest is tracking   
   IDs. In some cases those IDs may contain your personal info,   
   unencrypted but base64-encoded.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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