It would appear that personal attacks are quite okay in this thread. And given the members that are conducting such personal attacks, it must be okay anywhere in/on this forum, right? I was not aware of that little detail about this forum. Thank you for educating me. I'll see if I can be like you folks and cast aspersions upon a member's character when I don't like what someone posts.
But now I suppose you all will have some way to state that indicating someone's post is "totally into outer space" is not cruel, or mean, or nasty. That is just kind and understanding English.
Oh yes, and a response to one post about how safe Chrome is then makes me so off-topic it is worthy of a warning from one of you elite folks. Then a response to a link about privacy is then worthy of another warning about it not being my thread, thus meaning off-topic. No such barbs aimed at the other two members. Only me. Yes, that's very nice and fair and reasonable.
The funny thing is the OP is actually complaining about an Avast company policy related to a Google, Inc. product and is not asking any questions. I was the first to ask a question. I was not the first to start into opinions about the Google product the OP clearly doesn't want.
Oh, and I must remember that with the elite on this site privacy is a bygone notion and expounding upon its value is only worthy of scorn.
Yes, at least we now know, as one of you wrote.
But it's odd that casting barbs at me is okay, but nobody disputed that the opt-out instead of the opt-in at this company is mandated by Google, Inc. You can't cast doubt upon that statement so you will just shoot the messenger. Yep, we know that technique. It's become quite common these days. Unlike me you folks are in tune with the times. Be nasty. It's acceptable now.
And being in outer space is weird English. Where is inner space? Space is space, my friend. But you knew that, right?
And I decided you might wish to see how far out into space I am:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538The chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems said Monday that consumer privacy issues are a "red herring."
"You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology.
"Get over it."
McNealy's comments came only hours after competitor Intel (INTC) reversed course under pressure and disabled identification features in its forthcoming Pentium III chip.
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I apologize, because the comments were made much longer ago than I had remembered. More than ten years ago. But us folks that are not in touch with reality on this planet tend to lose track of time. Sorry about that.
EDIT to fix punctuation.