replace yahoo.com
Aug 9, 2012 | 11:48 pm
#1
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replace yahoo.com
i have used yahoo. com adjusted with an ad blocker for years as my first open page(i don't know what you call that page). in the past month or so, yahoo.com has been trashed by a bunch of kids. all pictures and videos. takes forever to load, and has become difficult to find information.
what are the suggested replacements? i have verizon, and verizon.net is unbelievably horrible. the opening page is celebs and what they want for tatoos.
what are the suggested replacements? i have verizon, and verizon.net is unbelievably horrible. the opening page is celebs and what they want for tatoos.
Aug 10, 2012 | 12:01 am
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Does anyone remember the days when so many sites were just advertising portals crammed with irrelevant content? Like, you'd visit your ISP's web site, and it would be loaded with ads, and there was no apparent way to actually contact them. Google seemed like such a breath of fresh air in those days. I think that's why I appreciate Google so much; no nonsense. Just lots of scary stuff that they're doing with me and my data on the back end...
Last edited by boberonicus; Aug 10, 2012 at 12:01 am Reason: phrasing
Aug 10, 2012 | 5:27 pm
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You can use any page you like on any website you like as your home page. If I understand your meaning, that's what it's called. Just pick any page on any site you like, and enter it and it will be the default page loaded anytime you load up your browser.
Watch out for google though, as boberonicus says. It's like selling your soul... they've got it stitched up so to get many of the most useful services you effectively (and by default) allow them to track you and collect data on you hugely...
Watch out for google though, as boberonicus says. It's like selling your soul... they've got it stitched up so to get many of the most useful services you effectively (and by default) allow them to track you and collect data on you hugely...
Aug 10, 2012 | 10:58 pm
#7
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+1 for about:blank
Why do you need a personalized or non-personalized home page? Especially when you just want to open the browser to go somewhere else, the loading of these other pages slows you down. Use a bookmark for that.
Change your start page and home page to "use a blank page", aka about:blank
simplify your life.
-David
Why do you need a personalized or non-personalized home page? Especially when you just want to open the browser to go somewhere else, the loading of these other pages slows you down. Use a bookmark for that.
Change your start page and home page to "use a blank page", aka about:blank
simplify your life.
-David
Aug 11, 2012 | 7:30 am
#8
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I use about:blank as well.
For searches, I have switched to dogpile.com. I find it faster than any of the other search portals and it looks like it is pretty neutral as far as customizing the search results.
For searches, I have switched to dogpile.com. I find it faster than any of the other search portals and it looks like it is pretty neutral as far as customizing the search results.
Aug 11, 2012 | 11:19 am
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I'm another one for blank start pages, though I used to use CNN for my go-to start page. I guess it really depends on what you're looking for/is most helpful when you start your browser.
Aug 12, 2012 | 6:29 pm
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