Posted on 03/25/2015 8:24:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker
No, but none of these adware apps do either. . . they are not allowed on the Apple iOS App Store.
However there are still website that, using HTML techniques, will pop-up ads or, using java scripting, will, on merely loading the ad, re-direct you to the App Store to purchase a particular iOS app. Very irritating. Apple closed that redirection ability and they found another way to do it. . . and Apple blocked that. . . and they found another way. Luckily most advertisers are too ethical to irritate their customers by using it. . . and Apple has warned developers that such advertising techniques may get their apps pulled from the App Store because such techniques do not add to the user experience of Apple products.
Utilizer and one other poster came on this thread not to participate in a "conversation," but as schoolyard bullies gleefully throwing feces, trashing the thread, denigrating other participants, littering the grounds with inanities of broken glass from the windows they've thrown bricks through, insulting other participants, lying about the platform, and pestering people, acting like juvenile delinquents, uncivilized disrupters for the purpose of making the thread completely unusable for conversation. It was NOT a disagreement, but a disruption created by them.
I agree, do not delete this thread. . . but not for the reasons Utilizer falsely claims. His contributions to this thread are NOT CONVERSATION. He and one other poster on here are not here to provide any useful or meaningful information or discusion. They are here to insult and throw brickbats at other Freepers. They are running a campaign to make any thread related to Apple an unpleasant experience for any other participant. There presence here is not about any kind of conversation, but rather about trying to start a FLAME WAR.
This was a TECH THREAD for the useful purpose of providing important information that may have been needed by the thousands of Freepers who happen to use Apple Mac computers for their visits to FreeRepublic.
As Jim Robinson has stated in the past, if you don't like a thread, STAY OUT.
The only ones acting disagreeable here were those two who invaded this thread to act juvenile and nasty. They are not interested in using Macs, but they cannot politely excuse themselves and move on, but just HAVE to spew their garbage commentary totally off topic.
Now, after making the mess, Utilizer is trying to sound "Oh, so reasonable," but he is anything but reasonable when HE THREW THE FIRST PUNCH. and continues to feed the flames. Then he's basically claiming "I haven't hurt any one! Nobody is hurt by what I did!" That is the sign of the typical bully. He knows what he is up to and is trying to cover his rear end!
Then, after making this mess, Utilizer adds a smiley. Wonderful.
Utilizer is trying to say "Nothing to see here, let's move on" to cover-up his reprehensible behavior. Sounds very Clintonesque.
That is why I COUNTER their LIES and mis-use of language. I refuse to allow them to get away with it. I will NOT allow their statements to stand, uncountered. They need to be called on the carpet every single time they do it.
I’ll check mine when I get home.
I should be ok.
Ignore ignoramuses such as Utilizer. He is one of the PC lemmings who follows the crowd over the cliff and a true believer. They are the true cultists.
I checked mine and I’m clean.
A friend just brought me his wife's 11" Macbook Air. . . and the Safari on it was crashing on startup for her and all of her family member's users profiles. . . It was Genieo ad-ware. Took me a bit to locate all pieces of this load of mal-adware and delete them.
It came in on her latest update of damned Adobe Flash!! The dates co-incide on the file installs. It can't have come in anywhere else. . . I knew exactly what to look for and what to delete. Deleted the files and Safari started up perfectly again.
Always uncheck the extras check boxes when installing Flash if you must install it. . .
As a rule I don’t install anything Im not sure of. I have Genieo before and have always tried to avoid it.
Mac cleaner is another one I stay away from. I haven’t really found the need to run any cleanup software.
That's why I ignored Minnesota_bound's links to CCleaner. It essentially does everything OS X already does if you just leave your Mac turned on over night. Why run a utility to do something that the SYSTEM takes care of automatically with built in routines! Yes, it has a button you can click to run Permissions Repairs, but so does Disk Utilities in your Apple Utilities folder. Redundant.
I can’t use a Mac.
I’m a heterosexual.
I was going to tease you about this, but the utilizer is being such an a$$ I can’t bring myself to do it. Good day.
Thanks, Woodman, you have a good one, too.
Me either!
Thanks. This is just another example of how most computer problems can be traced to the peripheral attached to the keyboard.
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