On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 9:08:06 AM UTC-8, Snidely wrote:   
   > Tuesday, Richard Hershberger quipped:   
   > > On Friday, October 30, 2020 at 8:18:20 PM UTC-4, Howard wrote:   
   > >> I hate it when websites don't give you the option of seeing what you've   
   > >> typed when you're filling in a field.   
   > >>   
   > >> I get that they want to protect people who want to enter important info in   
   > >> the middle of an airport waiting area, but for those who are alone at home   
   > >> or in an office it would be nice to be able to turn off the default and   
   see   
   > >> the minimum 14 character password they are forcing us to create with upper   
   > >> and lower case letters and at least one number and one non-alphanumeric   
   > >> character.   
   > >>   
   > >> Yes, there are workarounds, but it would be so much nicer to just have a   
   > >> "see typing" option right there.   
   > >   
   > > We're doing website pet peeves?  Cool!  My current peeve is how every   
   website   
   > > nowadays asks if I want them to spam me.  It would be lovely were there an   
   > > option to automatically answer no.   
   >   
   > Blame the privacy laws, Richie.  The sites don't /want/ to ask to spam   
   > you, but even less do they want to pay big fines or be blocked.  And   
   > actually, the warnings have more to do with selling your data than with   
   > spamming you.   
   >   
   > There probably is a Firefox setting or extension to automatically   
   > answer no, Chrome is a bit more iffy, early Edge probably not, and I   
   > don't know about Edge-as-skin-on-Chrome.   
   >   
   I get very few spam emails these days, no more than one or two a week.   
   I'm not running any software to block spam, so I assume that my provider   
   -- Shaw Cable, one of Canada's two largest network and connectivity   
   providers -- is doing a good job of identifying and blocking it. Unless   
   all the spammers have seen the error of their ways and joined monastic   
   orders, of course.   
      
   bill   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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