When I opened my browser to this forum today, it said I was logged-in as “Barry Shultz”…[oops]
I am NOT Barry Shultz.[X-)]
I immediately logged-out and then had trouble logging-in as ME. The Log-in screen just hung with the chasing circle in the tab next to the title of the page.
I clicked the “Stop” button (red ‘X’ icon) and the button changed to a “Refresh” button (green chasing circles icon), which I clicked and the page came up as me being logged in.
This trouble logging-in has been a problem for a couple of weeks now, but this is the first time I have come to the page already logged-in as somebody else.
Anybody else find themselves logged-in under a different name? (Have you even noticed?!?!?!?)
They must have some of the Programmers who are moonlighting from their jobs building the Healthcare.gov website? [alien][alien] Or maybe their Hackers are practicing around here?? [:-^]
Nope, I blame Google! Their fingers are into everything and play havoc with operations all over. Just think of the additional web traffic imposed by so many sites reporting back to Google what you are doing!
This morning I read that several technology companies are lodging a protest with the government over the NSA practices of monitoring people… I laughed myself silly when I read that one of the companies in the group is “GOOGLE”. I think they are just jealous, trying to keep their monopoly over stalking people on the internet. Google knows more about you and I than the NSA will ever know!
There are laws against ‘Stalking’ but apparently if Google does it to make money, then the laws don’t apply.
Oh, sorry, I am off on a tangent because of Google again trying to coerce me into combining different accounts into one big one so they can STALK me more easily.
I bet you this has something to do with that annoying compatibility button at the right side of the URL on Internet Explorer. I am losing track of the number of apparently unrelated problems you can solve by just making sure it is set right. What on earth is Microsoft doing behind the scenes that that one feature impacts so many aspects of browser operation?
S.V.'s story reminds me of what happened to me once with my cell phone. I was downtown and got into an elevator. At that moment my phone was apparently working properly. When I exited the elevator, on the main floor, I attempted to use the phone and received a taped message from a completely different cell phone service provider saying I was not a customer of their company and I could not complete my call. That was a real shocker. Once I got over that, I shut the phone down and restarted it, and it logged me back onto the proper network. To this day, I cannot figure out how that could have happened that quickly.
Wow! Kalmbach is so good to us - we can be in the Witness Protection Program by not putting up a photo or avatar, and now we can assume someone else’s identity.
OUCH!.. I am not seeing such as that. I wonder, what browser do you use? Does it have any sort of ad blocker or anti tracking features or can you add them to it?
I am using IE-11 that has a built-in anti-tracking feature which it claims to be blocking 4 services on this site (as I am typing this). I also have been using DoNotTrackMe for some time now and it claims to be blocking two more trackers. I don’t know if these hot links showing up on your computer would be blocked by such as these features/add-ins, but you might try it.
On another web site I frequent, there are now complaints of new banner advertising that I am not seeing, so I am wondering if some screwball has found a new way to irritate people and all the web servers have jumped on the bandwagon to just to be obnoxious. I hope it is a very short lived “feature” and that the anti-tracking features are blocking it and continue to do so.
I call for a boycott of all companies that use obnoxious, intrusive advertising on the web. Castrate them in the pocketbook!
You missed my words, “obnoxious” and “intrusive”. I don’t mind advertising. I even click on links when I see something I like and want to know more.
But when the advertising gets in the way… like on Yahoo an advert will suddenly cover over the news article I am reading, or when there is so much advertising that the reason I am on that page in the first place is constrained to a 1 inch wide column and broken into multiple tiny paragraphs interspersed within the adverts (with no regard to the actual paragraphing of what I am there to read), or when it opens extra copies of the browser and “hides” them behind the window I have open, or when it contains flashing animations designed to distract my eye… THEN I say (things that my mother would wash my mouth out with Lye soap if she heard me) and call for the demise of the advertiser.
RUDENESS is RUDENESS whether on the web or in my living room. I don’t understand how these people ever got out of kindergarten… they obviously never learned to NOT BE RUDE!
We could ask the government to start up a advertising exchange, where all the young companies who can’t really afford pop ups can buy adds on the cheap, while it charges the heck out of the older advertisers who have been paying reasonable rates to private advertising companies for years…and those who don’t want to pay a dime still get free advertising, paid for by the rest of us….all run off of a cruddy web site full of virus and malware paid for with tax dollars.
Checked on the processes running and found an ad program. Disabled it, and the problem has gone away. I’m not one to download any and everything, so I’m not sure where it came from.