On Nov 22, 2:33*pm, Dave Hill wrote:
On Nov 22, 1:31*pm, David in Normandy
wrote:





On 22/11/2010 14:18, Jeff Layman wrote:

On 22/11/2010 10:30, David in Normandy wrote:
On 22/11/2010 10:47, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 21/11/2010 20:39, Rusty Hinge wrote:
Dave Hill wrote:
Came accross this site whilst browsing,
http://www.eatweeds.co.uk
Does anyone here know anything about them?

I don't like their website - they're very insistent.

Since they wouldn't let me ignore their 'sign-up for a free
something-or-other, I killed it.

??

I got a popup and simply clicked on the red "X" to close it. No problem
to look at the rest of the website.

I didn't have any problems with the site nor did I get any popups. But
then I use the Firefox web browser with Adblock and NoScript - they get
rid of all the crap on websites nowadays and make them load faster too.
I tried using Microsoft's Internet Explorer the other day for curiosity
- first time for years and was amazed how many adverts and other crap
are on sites now. I'd only been using it for ten minutes or so when I
got a security alert about something trying to hijack the browser! So
quickly back to Firefox again.

I also have Adblock plus running, and am happy with it. I disabled
NoScript as I got fed up continually having to allow things. In general,
I have no idea whether something should be allowed to run or not. Just
looking at the NoScript webpages, there are 350 lines on the features
page and well over 1000 on the faq page. Too much information, maybe?

Maybe I'll try again in future and persevere with it.

I don't bother looking at any of the help or faq for it. If I'm just
surfing around or following links from Google then most sites don't need
to run scripts - those that don't seem to work without them I make a
judgement call and either temporarily allow scripts for that site to run
on the page or go to a different site.

The only sites I permanently allow permissions for are those such as
online banking. This regime seems to work well. I've not picked up any
computer viruses or trojans since switching to Firefox with these
add-ons years ago. My anti-virus has never needed to kick in to try to
block anything.

The one and only time I had a virus was around five years ago when I
used to use Internet Explorer and got hit with a drive-by virus. There
was a known hole in IE and Microsoft took several months to fix it - but
by then it was too late. I think a lot of folks got hit with that one.

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Firefox like Thunderbird is out of the Mozilla stable, very good
utilities and free,
I take it by the way this thread has moved that no one here has come
accross "Eat weeds".
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Probably an aquired taste? The way we're going, we'll all be eating
grass never mind weeds.