AOLers, say hello to Big Brother. Your privacy on the Web is over with. In stunning news this week after a backlash against AOL’s data leak of nearly a million user’s search records, AOL has acquired Tacoda, which uses technology to monitor client’s customers so you can see lots of “personalized” ads. So how does […]
Updated 10-17-09. A funny thing just happened. I was checking my PC’s Device Manager to see if dialup was installed, and I came across a new tutorial for Anti-AOL: How to find and uninstall the AOL WAN Miniport. The software that installed it, AOL 9.0 VR, has been off my computer for months. All versions […]
I have a tutorial to write and an older post to rework and republish this week, and I’d like to do a rip, I mean, a review of myAOL and Mgnet, but I’ll touch quickly on what’s going on this week with AOL…wow, not much isn’t. First off, if you haven’t heard about AOL’s class-action […]
As I wrote in Does AOL print its own money?, AOL has spent years paying for dozens of fraudulent escapades involving falsified advertising revenue and non-existent deals dreamed up between them and dozens of smaller Internet companies during their heyday and sequential dot-bust. While a running tally I’ve kept on fraud settlements has them paying […]
In news that’s just the old being made new again, AOL settled complaints with 48 states yesterday, according to Reuters. “The resolution announced Wednesday was driven by a deluge of complaints from AOL customers who said they tried to close their accounts, only to be thwarted in their attempts or discover they were still being […]
Updated 7-17-2007. I’ve had it with AOL’s software. Before anyone at AOL gets too warm and fuzzy that I noted recent improvements to how the software uninstalls, keep in mind I only download and install AOL to test it for people who want to get rid of it. That’s a lot of people: my most […]
Running this site for as long as I have (your humble ambassador to a world beyond AOL since December, 2005™ ), you’d think that I’ve heard of every anti-AOL site out there.
Sunbelt, the people who make CounterSpy and other software security products, reported on their blog yesterday that at least 450 free AOL sites are infected with the Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec, more commonly known as the zlob-fake-codec. How this works is you click a search engine result that takes you to an infected AOL account (user.aol.com is shown […]
Updated 8-20-12. Software: AOL Email. Replacement: POP Peeper. Difficulty Level: Easy For people who’ve never had any ISP (Internet Service Provider) except AOL, “How will I survive without them?” is a good question. POP Peeper can download your AOL email to your Desktop so you don’t have to sign into AOL for it. You can […]
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