Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:28:04 -0800 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Seriously, what's wrong with saving your bookmarks, address book, etc. >to disk and reading them back on the other end? That's what I ended up doing. The only reason for sync s that I had already set t up for my phone, so I figured it was ins

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
There are better choices than good old Mel. Joseph McCarthy or just check who is your favorite spy voting representative. Seriously, what's wrong with saving your bookmarks, address book, etc. to disk and reading them back on the other end? It sure avoids sharing your browsing habits withe the Net

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Ken Stephens wrote: Just think you could be the 1000 year old man. And register using the name Mel Brooks. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-05 Thread Ken Stephens
Just think you could be the 1000 year old man. On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:43 PM, wes wrote: > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann > > wrote: > > > How many 106 year olds spend any money? Pegged at that age you are not a > > target for much, except, perhaps, funeral services. Or you

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-04 Thread wes
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > How many 106 year olds spend any money? Pegged at that age you are not a > target for much, except, perhaps, funeral services. Or you could say > 30-something and get some "interesting" ads. > > > the best ads are those easiest to ignore.

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-04 Thread Denis Heidtmann
How many 106 year olds spend any money? Pegged at that age you are not a target for much, except, perhaps, funeral services. Or you could say 30-something and get some "interesting" ads. On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:13 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:55:44 -0800 (PST) > Rich S

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-04 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:55:44 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >When they deign to allow you to register an accont store your password >somewhere so you can refer to it when needed. For things like this I always use my 'standard' password, which I modify occasionally when a site requires it, using a

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: I just wanted to sync Firefox from my laptop to the new drive on my desktop. On the laptop I tried to sign in to sync, but (as usual) I had forgotten the password. Sadly Firefox has also forgotten the account, at least all three e-mail addresses that

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, wes wrote: I've started putting in 4/1/1900 as a date of birth for this type of stuff. Or "100" in cases when they ask for an actual age. I was going to suggest entering an age greater than 100; say, 133. Rich ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-04 Thread wes
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 5:17 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > OK, fine, I'll just create a new account. The page required a name and > a password, which I supplied, but it also wanted my age. I thought that > was rather nosy, so I left it blank. Oh so sorry, Firefox > apologetically informed me th

Re: [PLUG] Firefox blocked me from creating an account

2018-02-04 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Now you know what happens to those who lie to Big Brother. On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 5:17 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I just wanted to sync Firefox from my laptop to the new drive on my > desktop. On the laptop I tried to sign in to sync, but (as usual) I had > forgotten the password. Sadly Fire