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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 2:19 am 
Juju, How do you know if it's a bot? I don't know how to figure that out. I mean I don't have a lot of followers and did not know that is a clue. I don't really care about followers, LOL, I just have fun on twitter.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 9:29 pm
Dipo, I finally installed Bot Sentinel, which is also a Chrome extension. I really like it, and it is apparently also available in other applications. Let me see - search Twitter for BotSentinel and go to its Twitter page. Then click any one of its posts that says so and so suspended, and look on the left side, and you should be able find a way there to use it yourself. If you are just playing around with Big Brother, and not in the political threads, the bots have no interest in you, and you won't need it.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 9:46 pm
LOL, ok, I actually follow a couple of "political" things but not that many. Thanks.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, August 01, 2019 - 1:03 pm
I HATE the new Twitter, but I hate Chrome more. It drives me bat-sh*t crazy that the entire right 1/3 of my screen is all stuff I don't even look at.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, August 01, 2019 - 8:32 pm
Teach, I think there are extensions for all of the popular browsers if you do that generic thing I suggested for Dipo. If you make it to their dashboard, you will figure out if they have a solution that is best for you. Betcha they are eventually going to put flashing advertisements down that BIG wasted space on the right side of the screen.
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Treasure
Member
06-26-2002
| Friday, September 13, 2019 - 3:41 pm
I am wondering if anyone else is having this problem or is it something to do with my computer.
For the last month, I have been plagued with seeing parts of posts being missing. I will be reading along and suddenly, mid sentence, there will be nothing. When the poster starts a new paragraph, the post will continue. If there is no new paragraph, then there is no end to the post.
Example: In my last paragraph, I noted that I was having a problem with posts dropping off mid sentence. So if anyone could
And that would be the end of the message.
I guess I should report it in the feedback forum, but I thought I would ask here first.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Friday, September 13, 2019 - 3:48 pm
It sounds like the page isn’t loading completely. Have you noticed this with any other websites? Have you tried restarting your computer? You could also try clearing your browser cache.
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Treasure
Member
06-26-2002
| Friday, September 13, 2019 - 4:04 pm
Only does it on TVCH. I have cleared browser and restarted. Still does it. Not on every post but randomly. mostly in News and Views, but have seen it a couple of times in other sections of TVCH.
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Littlebreeze
Member
02-18-2001
| Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 11:25 am
Not a problem, I hope, but more of a question. For the past 3 or 4 months, every time I'd go to shut down my laptop I'd get a pop up to update Java. I've been ignoring it. A few nights ago I finally decided to do it.
The update was from Iolo Technologies. I clicked "install update" and got a message saying that the old version of Java had to be uninstalled before the update could be done. So I clicked on okay to uninstall the old version.
I got a message saying the old version was uninstalled and then the whole thing just disappeared from the screen and nothing further happened, no update. Now I don't think I have any Java at all, can't find it anywhere in the laptop's files as existing on the laptop and it used to be there. Tried finding the update again, to try the update one more time, and the update doesn’t seem to exist either.
It's an older Dell, maybe 7 or 8 years old and it's gotten slow. The odd thing is, since this uninstall of Java the laptop is running so much better, faster in every way, and I've found no issues with anything I do on the laptop which would be... a lot of shopping and email and every now and then a game of Scrabble against a robot or jigsaw puzzle on Jigidi. That's pretty much it. I don’t do social media of any kind. I don’t even come to TVCH on my laptop, only on my desktop PC.
I'm pretty close to techno-ignorant. I don't even know what Java does but so far it doesn't seem that I need it to do the things I listed above and the laptop definitely seems to be operating better and faster without it.
Is there some reason that I’m not seeing that I should have Java on my laptop?
Thank you.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 11:55 am
Not an expert, but you probably don't need it at all. It had some security issues and people moved away from it, so you'll find fewer and fewer instances of it being used. At this stage, you're probably better off without it.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 7:02 pm
Like Kitt, I dimly recall 4-5 years there were warnings out that ordinary users should consider disabling Java on their PC's. I remember checking mine at the time and finding out it was already disabled. As far as I know, I have never needed it in the meantime. So I wouldn't worry about it, LittleB, especially if it has speeded up your machine by uninstalling it.
Where is SpongeBob2112 when we need him?
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Littlebreeze
Member
02-18-2001
| Friday, October 25, 2019 - 12:48 pm
Thank you, Kitt & Juju! I really appreciate the info & I'm going to listen to & agree with both of you, I'm better off & won't worry about it. It does seem to have been a good thing. Thanks again! 
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 9:22 am
What is the name of the system that automatically inserts your credit card information with Windows 10?
I think I accidentally clicked on wrong thing when it(?) popped up and I want to cancel that incorrect click.
The payment side of Doordash no longer is available for me to scrutinize or change because the darn system is doing everything.
What do I google?
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 1:45 pm
Do you mean in the browser system?
Chrome has "autofill" in settings:
chrome://settings/
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 2:35 pm
I think it is from Windows 10 Edge?
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 2:45 pm
thank you! "autofill" gave me the necessary clue.
I am searching Windows 10 Edge and have located autofill.
thanks again. I just could not remember "autofill".
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 3:06 pm
Victory!
Reset Edge which deleted my mistake and now my credit card information is not automatically entered.
It was annoying also to have the computer enter a credit card when I wanted to use a different one.
"auto-fill" lol
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 7:27 pm
Yay Supertech, Rosie!!! <leaps into Rosie's lap>
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 8:20 pm
No medals yet. When I deleted previous settings and the autofill, the Door Dash was cleared. However, several other sites are now skewed. Not going to work on them yet. Just happy that Doordash is fixed.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, February 09, 2020 - 1:28 pm
Yesterday I was on some website, and it kept trying to distract my attention with flashing ads I had to keep closing, and I remembered I think it was Kitt saying Firefox has a Page Reader mode that will let you just read without distractions. So I Googled to see if Chrome has such an option, and it does! I followed these instructions:
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-enable-reader-mode-in-chrome/
And it works great!! You just follow the instructions and make the add-on to Chrome's properties. To enable the reader mode, which Chrome calls Distilled Page Contents, you click on the three dots in the upper right when you are on a page that is too busy with distractions, then look down in that list to find Distilled Page Contents. Click it, and voila! all the distractions disappear.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, February 09, 2020 - 2:01 pm
Actually, it was me, Juju 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, February 09, 2020 - 8:18 pm
Thanks, Naja. I would never have thought to try it if you hadn't mentioned you use it for Firefox. I have learned lots of good stuff from you over the years.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Sunday, February 09, 2020 - 11:29 pm
Those flashing things on an article make it a pain to read. I didn't realize until not too long ago that Apple, meaning Safari, has the page reader. Click on the thing in the web address window. I guess it's been there at least for some time, but I didn't know it.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, February 10, 2020 - 8:53 pm
Thanks, C'd'A, did not know that either.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, February 23, 2020 - 12:16 pm
All of a sudden my Comcast email is showing up as Not Secure. Is this a problem?
I have McAfee and Malwarebytes set up so I am thinking it is probably ok, but think it is so odd.
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