From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   With a quizzical look, billvan@shaw.ca observed:   
   > 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.   
      
   This isn't about classic spammers, it's about visiting a site, and   
   having your presence shared by data brokers.   
      
   /dps   
      
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