Quite a few sites these days do break if all scripts are disabled, but for most functionality can be restored by whitelisting just a few key domains (somewhat interestingly, I've found gaming news sites to be some of the most difficult to get to work, since they want to pull content from a massive number of third-party domains). This requires the user be fairly computer-savvy, but generally those using something like NoScript already know what they're doing. In addition to uBlock, I run NoScript, Request Policy, Disconnect, and Ghostery, which prevents pretty much anything that isn't hosted directly from the site's domain from even getting loaded. Aside from sites whose purpose is to serve up malware, nearly all infections come from third-party domains, so shutting those out unless you specifically allow them to load shuts down the primary vector of website-based malware infections.

SSD fixes the boot time issue.


On the second... Are you completely ignorant of network security or what?

If the user interface is your main concern you might want to look in to http://www.classicshell.net/. That said, I dislike much about Win10 and don't plan to abandon Win7 unless/until forced.

No thanks, until 10 stops spying I'll stick with 7

Have you stopped using your iPhone and/or Android device also?

Actually since Snowden leaked I did.

I use an old motoralla razer

Ok... dropping your smartphone because of the Snowden/NSA leak doesn't make much sense, if you still use a cell phone (well any phone).

Main issue at the time was that I was paranoid and I needed a phone for work. But I just really haven't found a good reason to go back to smart phones.

Sigh. The Media causes paranoid... because at least half the time they have incorrect or biased information.

My first comment was more of a joke. I just really don't know how it'll effect my computer. I'm not a techy guy.

Confirms my point about the media.

Microsoft 'spying' is mostly likely social media integration, convenience features like Cortana, marketing anolysis, and background housekeeping of the operating system. It is mostly likely done anonymously. For example if you bought something from Amazon, it could be tracked but no one would see that you bought said item.

Microsoft isn't the only company collecting this type of information, read the Privacy Policy of any company.

Google does this all the time. They are probably worse. Heck, you can email yourself a flight plan and without any other input, Google will 'remind' you when your flight takes off.

I really don't care if you hate this type of integration, but a lot of people are completely hating on Windows 10, but owe a iPhone/Android phone, use Social Media, use Google, etc...

I was more meaning gaming I seriously have no clue if my old old games (aoe 1, wasteland, etc ) will even work on 10

Most games should work. Old games will require tweaking, but if they are that old, wouldn't they have issues with Windows 7/8/8.1 as well.

edit: GOG.com has plenty of older games, that they tweak to work with modern operating systems.

Wasteland 1: https://www.gog.com/game/wasteland_the_classic_original

I don't know if the physical disc versions of the PC versions of Age of Empires and Wasteland work on Windows 10, but the gog.com version of Wasteland works and I'm sure the Steam version also works.

Thanks very much I am sorry to seem like a dunce

I can proudly say that I dislike Win10, and do not own a smart phone, do not use social media and do not have a google mail account(I still use my old yahoo email that I created when I was 16) ^^. Of course, I also realize that I'm in the minority, even amongst the people who dislike Win10, but I do prove you can't use a blanket statement like that ^^

And i on the other had say: what's the big deal? They do it just to show you commercials. Not to mention pretty much everything collects data on you these days, you can't fight it unless you go live in a cave somewhere

And even then, satellites will find you

I can proudly say that I dislike some stuff I'm reading about Windows 10 like microtransactions added to the video games that were once free like Solitare. Although I don't like free video games either I like to just pay one full retail price for video games. I also do not own a smart phone only a regular flip mobile phone, which works for me for work surprisingly. I don't need a tablet or a mobile phone that lets me surf the internet for work.I have never used social media websites either. I have only a yahoo account like you which I made back in 2000.

With all of that said I will eventually get Windows 10 one day. I will never switch to Linux or MAC OS X.

Windows for me just feels comfortable and at home. I started with Windows 98 in 1998 and since then I have purchased and used Windows Millennium Edition (ME), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. I'm not happy with Windows 8's metro tile interface, but I got used to it. Windows 8.1 I can make feel more like Windows 7.

Or on top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere! WOOT!

And you do know better, don't you?

You're just relaying what M$ say about these "integration" tools they use. What makes you sure there is nothing more to them than what they say?

In my neighbourhood, I was one of the first who bought a cell phone, back in the '90s. I was then considered a fool who was wasting her money. Today, everyone has a so called "smart" phone, except me. I got rid of it years ago, even if people I work with insist on me buying one. The only social media I use is https://twitter.com/ladyonthemoons; I never use Google, I use https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+and+microsoft+are+spying+on+you&t=ffsb instead and I'm happy with it. My main email accounts are at https://protonmail.com/about. I'm not an activist, I have nothing to hide, I just don't see why the agencies or companies should know about what I do online and sneak into my universe. And, yes, I know we all are under some kind of influence, whether consciously or not.

There are actually many people who dislike W10, more than you imagine; they just have to put up with it because they don't know how to escape it. What makes me mad is that some people don't even notice how ugly it is... We have produced generations of tasteless people; we should be ashamed of ourselves. If W10 looked like W7, I would use it; I would set it so that it intrudes on me the less possible, but I would use it.

Don't use "social media" (unless this forum counts ), gave up my Youtube account back when they merged and forced everyone to join Google+, my celphone is a 10+ year old "dumb" flip phone that I use maybe once a year (only have it because it was given to me as part of a "family plan" my father signed up for).

Not really for any tinfoil-hat reasons, unless you count an unwillingness to be someone's harvested data point. (plus being annoyed by all this "social media" crap in the first place.)

Hey! Flip phones are the best!

I also gave up my youtube account when they tried to forced G+ down my throat. No big loss, really, but still.

The thing with media is that you have to acknowledge that it is a business. They want to keep you hooked so that the advertisemant broadcasted pays the bills. Also most of the time they are owned by a mega corporation. Once you know that they is obviously a spin to everything you don't get so influenced by it. The 24/7 news networks are the worst, because they only talk about politically motivated stories.

They [Microsoft] gather information to so that advertising/marketing works better. They want to make money. I guess the government could use it for other reasons, but they can also collect information in other ways. As I stated most websites also collect information. They don't care about you personally, only the market as a whole.

Again, I am not saying bad stuff isn't happening, but Microsoft is handling the situation no different than every other major corporation.

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DDG still logs search terms, so it could still be used to some level

Taste is subjective...

If you really look at Microsoft's previous operating system they all have 'ugly' elements (at least in my eyes). The most beloved operating system, Windows XP, is quite ugly. Windows 9x/ME is too blocky. Windows 7's user picture location looked out of place, the way that start menu orb was positioned looks out of place (compared to Vista).

What exactly to dislike about the Windows 10 GUI? Just saying its ugly doesn't really help. No operating system is perfect.

As much as pains me, Apple's GUI (as least the newer versions) is obviously better in terms of aesthetics, but not better in terms of usability.

Mines locked down pretty good.


Fully encrypted too GPS/geotagging off.


I'd get a blackphone if I could afford it.

You're really asking?

http://www.reviewrays.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/windows8_start_page.jpg

That and the general look of it:

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