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Your #1 tech-related pet peeve?

LOLZpersonok said:
I have a lot of pet peeves, especially when the teacher is using their computer on the projector.

Some of these things shouldn't bother me because it isn't my computer, but they do bug me, so they're listed for that reason.

  1. When a teacher is using an obviously dated laptop with low memory, a new operating system and 10 open programs and 20 open Internet browser tabs, then complain about it being slow. I had a teacher who did this last year.
  2. People who don't organize files on the desktop into folders. In other words, a very messy desktop.
  3. Extreme fans of any company, be it Apple, Microsoft or Linux. (Linux isn't a company, but whatever.) They bother me because they put me/others down for my/their choice of system, like I'm/they're not allowed to use it. So what I like Windows? My choice doesn't affect you! It works well, thank you very much. If it makes them happy, I have three Macs.
  4. People who say tablets/phones aren't computers. Though they aren't classified as, referred to as or advertised as such, they are computers. Computers are devices that process and store data, most commonly known as running applications and saving files. Isn't this what tablets and phones do?
  5. Computer applications that display advertisements.
  6. When people try to dictate my next purchase with a computer for ANY reason. I know what's the best choice for me and I like to be left to it. If they give me tips, that is okay, it's when they try to persuade me to get something that bothers me.
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1. When people get really technical with defining stuff(such as claiming tablets are computers). Seriously, when I mean is PC
2.ADBLOCK SEROUSLY? AdBlock is the same thing as pirating. You are robbing people of their money they're trying to make off the ads when they provide you a service. On top of that, those adblock companies are evil, evil. They will make ad companies pay to go through their filters. I really hope adblock become illegal.
 
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AustinIllini said:
Any bloatware on phones, PCs, etc. Also, any program that changes your browser's default search engine and home page.
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I have the DuckDuckGo addon that changes my browser(because it's impossible to do by default in Safari) but it clearly stated that that's what it does, and that that's what it's for. Does that count?
 
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1. When people get really technical with defining stuff(such as claiming tablets are computers). Seriously, when I mean is PC
2.ADBLOCK SEROUSLY? AdBlock is the same thing as pirating. You are robbing people of their money they're trying to make off the ads when they provide you a service. On top of that, those adblock companies are evil, evil. They will make ad companies pay to go through their filters. I really hope adblock become illegal.
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1. Over technical or not, tablets are computers, they wouldn't be without processors or memory, both of which are typical of tablets.

2. Adblock is NOT the same as pirating. Pirating is downloading software/movies/music that normally costs money for free. Adblock blocks advertisements that normally are displayed on websites and web videos, essentially hiding them from the user. I'm almost 100% sure that advertisers have to pay the website in order to have their advertisements displayed, and adblock does not have a direct effect on the website's revenue. It's when the majority of a website's userbase uses adblock that the advertising companies begin to pull their advertisements, forcing the website to resort to paid subscriptions or donations to keep running. Even if it is or will become illegal, it's not like people are going to stop. Software piracy is bad enough as is yet many people continue to do it. People will just cover it up.

And no, adblock companies don't make ad companies pay to get through their filters. Adblockers exist to prevent the user from seeing advertisements, and by having ad companies pay to get through their filters basically undermines the whole idea of an adblocker.

3. People who use adblock (such as I) do it because they do not like intrusive advertisements, especially sketchy ones that "claim to earn you thousands of dollars without you leaving your home". It might interest you to know that Adblock Plus does allow non-intrusive advertisements to be viewed.
 
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MacDude21 said:
I have the DuckDuckGo addon that changes my browser(because it's impossible to do by default in Safari) but it clearly stated that that's what it does, and that that's what it's for. Does that count?
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I guess you can say it counts. But it's worse if it doesn't tell you.

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Here's a few more peeves that I just thought about:

  1. Programs that offer other random stuff while it is installing (like browser addons and toolbars, PC cleaners, etc) that are obviously not necessary.
  2. Programs that change default settings without asking first.
  3. A browser (especially Internet Explorer) with a lot of toolbars.
  4. Actually, just toolbars in general. I have never known anything more useless you could install on a computer.
  5. Most advertisements.
  6. Especially advertisements that make outrageous/bulls**t claims. "Make $1000 every day from home!" "Dermatologists hate her! Learn her trick to looking 30 years younger!" "Learn a new language in 10 days!" And it bothers me more that those advertisements are EVERYWHERE, even on good websites!
  7. YouTube thumbnails that are either completely unrelated or related only a little bit to the video. It bothers me the most when a "Fail Compilation 2014 Funny Lol" or whatever video has a thumbnail that looks like a still from a porno.
 
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LOLZpersonok said:
I guess you can say it counts. But it's worse if it doesn't tell you.

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Here's a few more peeves that I just thought about:

  1. Programs that offer other random stuff while it is installing (like browser addons and toolbars, PC cleaners, etc) that are obviously not necessary.
  2. Programs that change default settings without asking first.
  3. A browser (especially Internet Explorer) with a lot of toolbars.
  4. Actually, just toolbars in general. I have never known anything more useless you could install on a computer.
  5. Most advertisements.
  6. Especially advertisements that make outrageous/bulls**t claims. "Make $1000 every day from home!" "Dermatologists hate her! Learn her trick to looking 30 years younger!" "Learn a new language in 10 days!" And it bothers me more that those advertisements are EVERYWHERE, even on good websites!
  7. YouTube thumbnails that are either completely unrelated or related only a little bit to the video. It bothers me the most when a "Fail Compilation 2014 Funny Lol" or whatever video has a thumbnail that looks like a still from a porno.
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._. how does that count. The addon's only purpose is to change your default search engine. It's on their search engine site and is downloadable from the instructions telling you how to change your search engine on safari. It's nothing bad. I wanted my search engine changed-- I'm sick of google. In fact, I hate google anymore and don't like its results or anything about it.

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LOLZpersonok said:
1. Over technical or not, tablets are computers, they wouldn't be without processors or memory, both of which are typical of tablets.

2. Adblock is NOT the same as pirating. Pirating is downloading software/movies/music that normally costs money for free. Adblock blocks advertisements that normally are displayed on websites and web videos, essentially hiding them from the user. I'm almost 100% sure that advertisers have to pay the website in order to have their advertisements displayed, and adblock does not have a direct effect on the website's revenue. It's when the majority of a website's userbase uses adblock that the advertising companies begin to pull their advertisements, forcing the website to resort to paid subscriptions or donations to keep running. Even if it is or will become illegal, it's not like people are going to stop. Software piracy is bad enough as is yet many people continue to do it. People will just cover it up.

And no, adblock companies don't make ad companies pay to get through their filters. Adblockers exist to prevent the user from seeing advertisements, and by having ad companies pay to get through their filters basically undermines the whole idea of an adblocker.

3. People who use adblock (such as I) do it because they do not like intrusive advertisements, especially sketchy ones that "claim to earn you thousands of dollars without you leaving your home". It might interest you to know that Adblock Plus does allow non-intrusive advertisements to be viewed.
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Still. If the website still gets money, then the ad companies don't get what they paid for. No matter what, it's pirating, period. You CAN pay adblock more money to get your ad to go through their filters, but they charge a lot of money, therefore it doesn't happen often. If everyone used adblock, you'd have to pay to visit websites. I don't want that to happen. I REALLY don't want that to happen. Just don't look at the ads or something. But don't use adblock. It's the internet killer.
 
MacDude21 said:
._. how does that count. The addon's only purpose is to change your default search engine. It's on their search engine site and is downloadable from the instructions telling you how to change your search engine on safari. It's nothing bad. I wanted my search engine changed-- I'm sick of google. In fact, I hate google anymore and don't like its results or anything about it.

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Still. If the website still gets money, then the ad companies don't get what they paid for. No matter what, it's pirating, period. You CAN pay adblock more money to get your ad to go through their filters, but they charge a lot of money, therefore it doesn't happen often. If everyone used adblock, you'd have to pay to visit websites. I don't want that to happen. I REALLY don't want that to happen. Just don't look at the ads or something. But don't use adblock. It's the internet killer.
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Blocking advertisements is not piracy. Read these definitions of Piracy:

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-online-piracy.htm
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/piracy
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/piracy?s=t

Note that none of the definitions mention "Blocking of Advertisements".

Online Piracy is Copyright Infringement. In the licensing agreement of software and the policies of the copyright holders of music and video, one cannot legally redistribute software, film or music for free or for charge without the owner's permission. Downloading software, music and video that is normally paid is classified as piracy. Blocking Internet advertising is not piracy.

You mention "paying adblock companies to bypass filters". Please give sources? Unfortunately I have not been able to find such sources. As I said earlier, having advertising companies pay to bypass adblock filters completely undermines the idea of an adblocker. This essentially makes the adblocker useless, even if it "happens rarely".

But don't use adblock.
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I don't modify my computer on command. I don't install/uninstall software to impress others. I use it for its intended purpose, therefore, I will not stop using adblockers, at least not for you. "Don't look at them". It's kind of hard not to if they're intrusive, and trust me, they're designed in such a way that you'll notice. If the Internet's freeness (don't we already have to pay for service?) disappears, then so be it. I highly doubt the Internet will die anytime soon.

Take your popular YouTuber, for example: Google is a multi-billion dollar company, and YouTube is probably their largest division. Considering YouTube's high amounts of daily revenue and ability to continually pay YouTube partners (sometimes ridiculous amounts!) I think that we're fine, and advertisements are well at work.

Oh, and don't forget the vast majority of the Internet userbase doesn't use adblockers! There are roughly 500 million Firefox users online, and only about 200 million use an adblocker. That means the majority doesn't use an adblocker.

EDIT: I did find a source that mentioned Google paying Adblock Plus to have its advertisements whitelisted, but the source also mentions that it cannot be confirmed. So you can't necessarily use that as an argument.
 
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Mine

  • Being told you have enough Apple Stuff
  • Customers that say " You People "
  • Customers who install the Ask tool bar
  • Customers who install Incredimail
  • Customers who install Mcaffee Security Scan
  • The good old " Every Since " line
  • The good old " Oh but you said " line
  • Anything to do with printers
  • When someone changes IP's on a Server and wonders why stuff isn't working
  • When i ask a customer how are they going? They reply with i am Good and you. God i hate that
  • Internet Explorer (Internet Exploder)
 
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I hate hearing "We don't support MACS" and with the Macs in all uppercase. Especially when it relates to browsers. You know, a browser, like browsers on the Mac don't do http or anything.
 
-The term daily driver. I don't know how it started but we need to find the person who coined the term first and have him/her beaten.

-People who complain about their batteries discharging normally, especially with smartphones when compared the battery life with their old feature phone. And people still go "ugh... the battery sucks on this. It won't last more than a day." Fact 1: Batteries drain with use. Fact 2: You probably use your smartphone a lot more often than you did your feature phone.

-When people say they got "bored" with their phone and want to switch OSes (from iOS to Android, from Android to Windows, etc.) as a result. So you have an app store loaded with millions of games and other apps, a whole internet at your fingertips, all the music and movies you can put on there... and it's the OS itself you need to be entertained by?
 
Slow devices. In an age where multi-core processors and SSDs are becoming the norm, it's maddening using a machine that takes more then a couple of seconds to do anything.
 
1.) Captchas that are nearly indecipherable. This is not a pet peeve. It's well beyond a peeve. I think the death penalty is not enough for the person responsible for them. Jailtime is acceptable for anyone who uses them on a website. And the audio version? Gimme a break. "Hmmphorg yono beang" in a mumbling robotic voice, anyone?

2.) Websites or apps that jump around so much while loading that you end up tapping or clicking at something that just moved so instead tap/click on something entirely different. The other day I was inside a building with poor signal and I launched Flixster to see what movies were playing. Tapped on, what was, the theater I wanted only to have an ad expand into the area I tapped on. Whisked unhappily into the browser for some gawd-awful product I had no interest in.

3.) Apps that beg you to review them. You want a review? Okay, fine. But since you begged me you might not like my review.

4.) News sites that don't have comments. Half the time the real story is told in the comments.

5.) Following a link to a web page I will probably only need once, and need quickly, only to have to find a way past the "download our app!" screen first. I don't need an app for every web site I might stumble upon.




Mike
 
MacDude21 said:
Still. If the website still gets money, then the ad companies don't get what they paid for. No matter what, it's pirating, period. You CAN pay adblock more money to get your ad to go through their filters, but they charge a lot of money, therefore it doesn't happen often. If everyone used adblock, you'd have to pay to visit websites. I don't want that to happen. I REALLY don't want that to happen. Just don't look at the ads or something. But don't use adblock. It's the internet killer.
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Ads are blocked. Website doesn't generate revenue enough through ads. Resorts to paid subscriptions. People refuse to pay. Website dies. The rest of the internet dies. Printed news are back in fashion and freedom of speech becomes incredibly hard for the layman. Civil war ensues. CO2 emission increases and forest area decreases. Other pollution factors increase also. Global warming is accelerated. The World soon becomes uninhabitable.

And this was all because I used Adblock.
 
First of all, when pc users are trying to point out one of the "flaws" of OS X, DON'T TOUCH THE SCREEN OF MY COMPUTER. PC problems in general and people telling me that Macs are useless are tied for second place.
 
A couple things

> People who hate IE for how bad IE used to be.
> People who brag about using adblock.
 
1. windows
2. internet explorer
3. apple haters because of price.
4. have to use "iTunes" haters. even though you don't need to use iTunes at all, what program do you want to use to organize your content? windows media player? no. just one big folder? no.
5. iTunes store complainers. oh, i want choice. then they just buy everyone from one other store still, so what was the problem? oh you just hate apple.
6. gamer fanboy cross over into ios/android war. i bought this phone, so its the best? and then need everyone to assure them and agree with them. and then talk bad about other companies phones when they see them to make themselves feel better about their choice. straight from the ps3/xbox wars.
7. 10.6.8 users - ok, we get it you love it and will never upgrade since you love your spaces so much and can't adapt.
8. my email isn't working. lets call the internet company and complain. no, how about you set up your email correctly.
9. i have to scroll on a website.
10. im not updating my computer, this still works fine. uh, no it doesn't.
 
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MacDude21 said:
AdBlock is the same thing as pirating. You are robbing people of their money they're trying to make off the ads when they provide you a service. On top of that, those adblock companies are evil, evil. They will make ad companies pay to go through their filters. I really hope adblock become illegal.
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And this comes from a guy with a hackintosh in his sig ... :rolleyes:
 
iBlazed said:
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It has got better recently, but I've had iCloud duplicate all my contacts, wipe all my bookmarks from my phone (3 times), duplicate all my calendar events I subscribed to, not open Pages documents over 100MB in the cloud (since been raised to 200MB, but there shouldn't really be a limit if they're supposed to be integrated), not sync reminders to my phone and delete around a months worth of notes.

It's not specifically iCloud, as MobileMe was just as bad. Apple have really great ideas for their cloud software, but it rarely 'just works' as OS X does.
 
iBlazed said:
I don't get this. You wouldn't have a job without them if you're a dev.
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You may not see the logic in it, but everything works correctly until the end user has it. Then things start breaking or they start asking questions. They put too many variables into ones work and project to be much use beyond being a source of agitated humor.
 
In app purchases ruining gaming on mobile devices. Passing off a game as "free" then requiring hundreds of dollars worth of upgrades to play. :mad::mad::mad:
 
A friend or family member sending me an email asking....


Is this a virus (Worm, Trojan, etc)?

Really...You going to send that crap to me...think...think.
 
Tinmania said:
1.) Captchas that are nearly indecipherable. This is not a pet peeve. It's well beyond a peeve. I think the death penalty is not enough for the person responsible for them. Jailtime is acceptable for anyone who uses them on a website. And the audio version? Gimme a break. "Hmmphorg yono beang" in a mumbling robotic voice, anyone?

Lol! :p

2.) Websites or apps that jump around so much while loading that you end up tapping or clicking at something that just moved so instead tap/click on something entirely different. The other day I was inside a building with poor signal and I launched Flixster to see what movies were playing. Tapped on, what was, the theater I wanted only to have an ad expand into the area I tapped on. Whisked unhappily into the browser for some gawd-awful product I had no interest in.

YES!!!!
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