Posts by n00b

Boo hoo, more tears for web marketers

It's really such a shame, I feel so bad for them when they're hampered in their efforts to track my every move so they can serve me up the latest and greatest obnoxious flash ad floating across my screen while I'm trying to read an article. :(

And someone says that this eats up an extra 0.5 MB per search? Oh dear, I guess those poor Hughes.net customers with their 200MB/day caps are going to have to limit themselves to only searching Google say 250 - 300 times a day. It's the information age, dang it, how can anyone consider themselves to be on the cutting edge if they're not searching Google a minimum of 800 times a day! They might as well go back to using stone tablets and a chisel for their telecommunication needs. :(

Fine by me

Wow, I never knew that Reg visitors were so concerned for the angst of web marketers and analysts who try to track our every move on the web. Touching, really!

I'm about to upgrade to AVG 8, and while I won't be using the linkscanner or real-time protection (I'm fine with my security practices and don't feel the need to use the CPU cycles), I'll definitely be enabling both the next time on the parent's computer the next time I visit. I think the small cost in bandwidth for the extra protection will be worth it for them.

For the people asking, "Well why don't they just scan when you click on the link?": This is a free product, my understanding is that such a feature is available, but in the paid version. I would think that this would lead to a much slower browsing experience than LinkScanner anyway -- it sounds like LinkScanner is just scanning your search results, as opposed to running a scan on every link you click while surfing the web. Maybe it will be a drag if all you do is run searches all day instead of actually spending any time at the web sites, but, well, if that's the case it sounds like you're not using your "precious" time very well anyway.

One valuable question that *was* brought up was the issue of how LinkScanner handles it when you have your search results pages set to show more than 10 or so results. Especially if you have it set at 100 or more, then that *would* be an excessive resource drain if all these were scanned, so it would be nice to see Grisoft address whether or not they account for this.