From: rrhersh@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 2:04:37 PM UTC-5, Snidely wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I was thinking about the question of do I want notifications from this site?    
   The answer is no.  The answer will always be no.  When I finally broke down   
   and got a smart phone, I quickly realized that I would, by default, be   
   inundated by useless    
   notifications, drowning out the few I actually wanted, which are of attempts   
   to contact me specifically:  text messages, missed calls, and voice mail.  So   
   I took the time to go through and turn off notifications for everything else.    
   This was a pain, but    
   once it was done it was done.  Now websites are in on the act, often asking me   
   every damned time.  No, I do not want your notifications.  No, I will not want   
   it the next time you ask.  Asking me again simply tells me that I should   
   reconsider visiting    
   your site again.   
      
   Richard Hershberger   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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