Why? McAfee has worked well for me. I’ve tried Norton and Kaspersky. Didn’t like them better than McAfee. I also use Brave for my browser.
Also what do you recommend for antivirus software?
Windows’ built-in antivirus (Defender) has gotten good enough, and the Nortons and McAfees have gotten so bloated, that it’s really not worth paying for an antivirus at home anymore.
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Thanks.
One day I got this pop up on my desktop on the bottom right system icons from McAfee saying “we’ve found 8 problems” or something similar.
I clicked it and it went to a page offering me the chance to buy a higher level subscription.
Later I got the exact same message with the exact same number of supposed problems on my laptop.
Fuck off, McAfee.
(eta: I smelled a rat on the first alert and didn’t get the upgrade)
That’s weird. I just looked at my recording, and it recorded on ABC, and I live in North Central Austin. Maybe I just got lucky. Anyways, they better get this shit resolved, as I’m strictly a record, then watch football fan.
It’s scareware tactics bordering on what the fake antiviruses use.
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I use AVG, and don’t seem to get bombarded too much. There is the occasional “we can help you further” thing, but I don’t feel like they’re trying to scare me into anything.
I don’t use any anti-virus besides Defender but I do use Malwarebytes. It’s gotten a bit bigger since I started using it but it’s still pretty out of the way.
I was able to stream USC-LSU on one device (through my ESPN+/Hulu/Disney+ package) but not another. By Monday evening I couldn’t get the BC-FSU game on either device. I tried eleventy ways of divorcing my U-Verse provider arrangement on those devices, but it keeps coming back and ESPN keeps telling me that it can’t provide that content. I’m also beginning to think that the assumption that my ESPN+ subscription included streaming access to ESPN was naïve.
I blame DirectTV because I am their customer and have been for over ten years. I may not be much longer but I will find a way to watch ESPN. For the record, it is my preference to do it on Direct. I can record, I can toggle back and forth between different games at the same time and I know all of the stations I use by memory. I also have hours of recorded programming on there that I haven’t gotten around to watching. I will pay a reasonable subscription increase to keep it but not with a reduced offering. I watch nothing but sports and news programming.
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Yes, it was naive, but I’ve also been down that road.
DJ Uiagalelei has been terrible. He missed at least one wide open receiver for a touchdown when FSU was in the red zone and trying to mount a comeback.
I think it is interesting that any of us take sides in this money-grab. DirectTV wants more to allow Disney on its platform, and Disney wants to keep that money in house. As far as I can see, they both lose while they are at a stand-still, so maybe one of them will blink soon.
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Disney wants you to ditch DirecTV and subscribe to their streaming service (Hulu).
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Depends on whether DirecTV/U-Verse is going to give me a refund for the services I’m not receiving. If not, they’ve got an incentive to draw this out for a while.
I don’t remember these kind of carriage contract standoffs happening before the early/mid 2000s but they are pretty routine these days. Was I just unaware of them before that time?
I think the business was lucrative enough back then that they could avoid these kinds of situations. But margins are shrinking, content providers are getting more aggressive with their pricing, and cable guys are fighting for their lives. Stakes are higher.
Just more competition now. Before the early 2000s there was cable (the one provider, take it or leave it) or satellite, which was in its commercial home infancy. Or rabbit ears. Now everyone and their dog has a streaming service, and they want you to use theirs. Disney owns ABC, ESPN, FX, History, A&E, Lifetime, and a bunch of other stuff, and they leverage that to get you to subscribe to their streaming service. CBS/Paramount and NBC/Peacock are next. It’s a streaming war. Get used to it.
So far Netflix is the only one that restricts usage to one household to prevent sharing log on credentials with other users. It’s just a matter of time before other streaming services follow suit. Currently I use my brother’s Peacock and he uses my Paramount.
The thing that keeps me with Youtube TV is that my kids, as long as they come home nad log in at home once a quarter or so can use one of our 5 account log ins.
Keeps costs down and give the kids a different reason to come see us. Win/Win
Daughter hasn’t been able to come home in a while so live tv is limited for her right now. (very 1st world problem)