I forgot to mention Yahoo Mail - what a pain in the proverbial that is of late 
 
Specifically, whoever thought it was a good idea to display an advertisement at the top of your Inbox, made to look deliberately like just another email, should be pegged out in the desert and left for the vultures.
 

Adblock Plus does a reasonable job of keeping this ruddy annoyance at bay, but Yahoo soon catches up and the ads start reappearing.
 
I keep threatening to move over permanently to one of my other emails (Gmail, Hotmail etc) but I really can't be arsed to have to faff about changing my details everywhere.
 
Arrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh

I've got a full bag of Purina Peeve Chow, so I'll feed the current pack of pets. While they feast, I'll point out a few of the extra special ones.
 

1. E.T. Forms - These are those lovely forms that have to phone home to submit your entry every single time you click on another field. Shut up. Wait until I finish filling in the rest of the info before you call the mother ship. 
2. Wild Geese - I can't stand pages that make me click link after link to chase down information. Either provide a link to the information you say you're providing, or just admit that your site serves no purpose whatsoever. 
3. Illiterate Sites - I understand that some people prefer to watch videos to learn how to do something, but would it kill you to also write the info down so someone can just scan through it without wasting time watching your stupid videos? If so, would it finish you off quickly, or would you still have time to finish writing the steps and posting them where someone with at least a 2nd grade education can read it?
4. Facebook BFF - You like Facebook. I get it. You like it a lot. You two are BFFs. Sometimes, you even call Facebook your BAE (English slang definition, not Danish, although that also fits). Just because you wuv Facebook so very very much, does not mean that I want to sign into to your site with my Facebook credentials and have you update my Facebook page on my behalf. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Facebook is just not that into you. I'm sorry. 
5. Captcha - Guess whatcha? Robots aren't bothering with your site. They have better things to do. Contrary to popular opinion, Robots aren't trying to take over the world. They're trying to get away from us. That's how you know they're intelligent. If you want me to type in a stupid phrase to prove I'm human, at least make it something a human can read. 
6. Fake Download - When you offer a link to download your product, don't download something else instead. Give me the thing you said you were going to give me. You see, putting 35 download links on your page for other things I don't want and hiding the one thing I do want in the middle does not increase my appreciation for your product. In addition, when you list the name of the item I want next to a download link, and it's really a link for another product, that's bad. Try assuming that the people who would use your product have the ability to read. If necessary, learn to do so yourself. 
7. Survey Says... - When I visit your site, don't block my view of the page with your idiotic plea for me to complete a satisfaction survey. You won't like the answers I'll give. If you would like for me to complete a survey, place a link to it on your page along with your request. If I feel like filling it out, I will. If you want to get more visitors to your site, stop driving them away. 
8. Caffeinated Site - Hold still. When stuff is jumping around all over your page, it's hard to click on things. Stop popping up, windowing, morphing, animating, and flashing. Unless you're trying to trigger somebody's seizure, knock it off. I know you like a page that jumps out a screams at visitors. No one else does. Shut up. Just hold still and wait. Provide information and draw me in instead of trying to shove everything at me at once. 
9. Spam, Spam, Spam, & Spam - Okay. You tricked me into creating a user id on your stupid site. That doesn't mean that I want to receive email from you. As a matter of fact, no one ever wants to hear from you. Nothing will make me hate your company more than constantly hounding me with your idiotic spam. I have been known to change my future purchasing decisions based solely on whether or not a company has annoyed me with their bilious blather. Shut. Up. If I want to hear from you, I'll let you know. 
10. BIGGEST SALE OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - It's not half as exciting as you think it is. In fact, it's really just the normal sale price marked down from an impossibly inflated list price. If calling it a sale isn't going to prompt me to buy, screaming that it's a sale isn't likely to help your cause. It just makes you look desperate. Well, it also makes me think that I don't want to waste my time on your site. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Any similarities to sites operated by Guitar Center are entirely accidental...
 

SteveStrummerUK
 
 
I forgot to mention Yahoo Mail - what a pain in the proverbial that is of late 
 
Specifically, whoever thought it was a good idea to display an advertisement at the top of your Inbox, made to look deliberately like just another email, should be pegged out in the desert and left for the vultures.
 

Adblock Plus does a reasonable job of keeping this ruddy annoyance at bay, but Yahoo soon catches up and the ads start reappearing.

You can add the following to the user styles for that site in your browser:
 
.mb {
font-size: 1pt !important;
}

drewfx1

SteveStrummerUK
 
 
I forgot to mention Yahoo Mail - what a pain in the proverbial that is of late 
 
Specifically, whoever thought it was a good idea to display an advertisement at the top of your Inbox, made to look deliberately like just another email, should be pegged out in the desert and left for the vultures.
 

Adblock Plus does a reasonable job of keeping this ruddy annoyance at bay, but Yahoo soon catches up and the ads start reappearing.

You can add the following to the user styles for that site in your browser:
 
.mb {
font-size: 1pt !important;
}

That sounds good Drew...
 
How/where do I add that though?
 
I'm on IE11.
 
 

UbiquitousBubba
I've got a full bag of Purina Peeve Chow, so I'll feed the current pack of pets. While they feast, I'll point out a few of the extra special ones.
 

1. E.T. Forms - These are those lovely forms that have to phone home to submit your entry every single time you click on another field. Shut up. Wait until I finish filling in the rest of the info before you call the mother ship. 
2. Wild Geese - I can't stand pages that make me click link after link to chase down information. Either provide a link to the information you say you're providing, or just admit that your site serves no purpose whatsoever. 
3. Illiterate Sites - I understand that some people prefer to watch videos to learn how to do something, but would it kill you to also write the info down so someone can just scan through it without wasting time watching your stupid videos? If so, would it finish you off quickly, or would you still have time to finish writing the steps and posting them where someone with at least a 2nd grade education can read it?
4. Facebook BFF - You like Facebook. I get it. You like it a lot. You two are BFFs. Sometimes, you even call Facebook your BAE (English slang definition, not Danish, although that also fits). Just because you wuv Facebook so very very much, does not mean that I want to sign into to your site with my Facebook credentials and have you update my Facebook page on my behalf. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Facebook is just not that into you. I'm sorry. 
5. Captcha - Guess whatcha? Robots aren't bothering with your site. They have better things to do. Contrary to popular opinion, Robots aren't trying to take over the world. They're trying to get away from us. That's how you know they're intelligent. If you want me to type in a stupid phrase to prove I'm human, at least make it something a human can read. 
6. Fake Download - When you offer a link to download your product, don't download something else instead. Give me the thing you said you were going to give me. You see, putting 35 download links on your page for other things I don't want and hiding the one thing I do want in the middle does not increase my appreciation for your product. In addition, when you list the name of the item I want next to a download link, and it's really a link for another product, that's bad. Try assuming that the people who would use your product have the ability to read. If necessary, learn to do so yourself. 
7. Survey Says... - When I visit your site, don't block my view of the page with your idiotic plea for me to complete a satisfaction survey. You won't like the answers I'll give. If you would like for me to complete a survey, place a link to it on your page along with your request. If I feel like filling it out, I will. If you want to get more visitors to your site, stop driving them away. 
8. Caffeinated Site - Hold still. When stuff is jumping around all over your page, it's hard to click on things. Stop popping up, windowing, morphing, animating, and flashing. Unless you're trying to trigger somebody's seizure, knock it off. I know you like a page that jumps out a screams at visitors. No one else does. Shut up. Just hold still and wait. Provide information and draw me in instead of trying to shove everything at me at once. 
9. Spam, Spam, Spam, & Spam - Okay. You tricked me into creating a user id on your stupid site. That doesn't mean that I want to receive email from you. As a matter of fact, no one ever wants to hear from you. Nothing will make me hate your company more than constantly hounding me with your idiotic spam. I have been known to change my future purchasing decisions based solely on whether or not a company has annoyed me with their bilious blather. Shut. Up. If I want to hear from you, I'll let you know. 
10. BIGGEST SALE OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - It's not half as exciting as you think it is. In fact, it's really just the normal sale price marked down from an impossibly inflated list price. If calling it a sale isn't going to prompt me to buy, screaming that it's a sale isn't likely to help your cause. It just makes you look desperate. Well, it also makes me think that I don't want to waste my time on your site. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Any similarities to sites operated by Guitar Center are entirely accidental...
 

Sorry, but you kind of lost me there...  Do you have a video I could watch instead? 

SteveStrummerUK

drewfx1

SteveStrummerUK
 
 
I forgot to mention Yahoo Mail - what a pain in the proverbial that is of late 
 
Specifically, whoever thought it was a good idea to display an advertisement at the top of your Inbox, made to look deliberately like just another email, should be pegged out in the desert and left for the vultures.
 

Adblock Plus does a reasonable job of keeping this ruddy annoyance at bay, but Yahoo soon catches up and the ads start reappearing.

You can add the following to the user styles for that site in your browser:
 
.mb {
font-size: 1pt !important;
}

That sounds good Drew...
 
How/where do I add that though?
 
I'm on IE11.
 
 

I don't use IE, but global (IOW affecting every site) user styles are explained here:
 
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer/Adding_User_Styles#User_Style_Sheets_for_Internet_Explorer
 
IE seems to only support global user styles. This can create problems with any other sites that use the same ".mb" tag. A more specific tag is safer. This one does the same thing:
 
[EDIT: Made safer for other sites by restricting things to the fully nested tags which are extremely unlikely to be present on any other sites]
 
.bd .main .container .mb div.top, .bd .main .container .mb div.bottom {
font-size: 1pt !important;
}

AFA those sites that Automatically charge your CC after the first period, I played their little game by paying for the initial sum with a one time re-loadable CC for just the amount.
 
I have OnStar and Amazon warning  me  and crying that they cannot renew my subscriptions/plans because my payment method is expired.Guess what, I aint gonna..

Yep. Most of it is because of all the crooks in the world. I used to use a couple of different passwords to most sites. I'd do a more complex PW for PayPal or something like that but last year someone hacked (took over) my Ebay account. They didn't do anything that I could see, I guess I found out in time and got my account back.
Then I set about changing all my PWs to harder ones, then I would forget them.
I got an APP called iPassword. All I have to do is remember the PW to the APP and remember to lock my phone when I go out. It works for me but it is all an aggravation. It is mind boggling how many people will steal. Even people who don't normally steal will, well some will. A few years ago, about 15 I guess my sister-in-law told us a story, she thought it was funny, it made me mad. A friend of theirs went to a small store and the gas pump was not set right, it was selling gas for pennies on the dollar. He went home, went back and forth and filled up every vehicle he had and all his gas cans... she thought it was funny. My first thought would have been to tell the store keeper. So... I don't see it coming when people are a thief. It always surprises me.
About 15+ years ago WalMart began checking bags and looking at receipts whenever you left the store. It offended me. Then I went to a convenience store that I was doing service work for. While talking to the clerk she told me that they had lost over 100 dollars worth of cigarettes in one shift that day. This was when they still put them out on the counter and they were about 1.50 or so a pack, I guess.. I didn't smoke. Then I began to understand why WalMart was checking bags. It wasn't long before cigarettes were no longer on display racks on any counter.
Those same people and more have full time work trying to steal from you and from me online.
Yeah, it's aggravating but it still may not be enough.
Think.. if someone could hit every Visa/MC or other credit card account for something like $0.79, they would have mega money and most people would not notice and if they did would it be worth their time to do anything about it? People are working FULL TIME trying to take our stuff, our identities, anything they can take from us and they force us into all these aggravating things we have to do to keep them at bay.
At least they provide a living for Herb! Eh... don't get me started.
Corruption from the top to the bottom is the problem.

A great way of generating easy to remember but hard to crack passwords is by using a phrase that means something to you and then taking the first letter of each word. Then substitute any "i" with a 1 or !, "a" with 4, "e" with 3, "o" with 0, and other such variations.
 
You can even relate the phrase to the site....
 
So....... "This password is really easy to remember but a hard one to guess", would be tp1r3trb4h0tg. No logging on my account here with it though....  please...

I have a foolproof system.....
 
I use the password "incorrect". If by any chance I happen to forget my password and type in the wrong thing, I get the handy reminder.......your password is incorrect.