Comments on: No “get lost!” option

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:58:06 +0000

Sennacherib dealing with technology is one of the funny highlights of life.

By: Michael Rittenhouse

Michael Rittenhouse — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:22:41 +0000

Yeah, it’s snarky. I have met a number of young web designers and marketing people. There can be a sense of superiority among them, because they know how to build web pages, and few people do. Their impatience with the rest of us shows in those prompts.

They’ve never had to mind a literal shop, where the door chime alerts the owner to someone entering, and calls for humility, accommodation, learning, and gratitude. The customer might leave with nothing, but could also recruit the next customer.

By: Mary Catelli

Mary Catelli — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:43:54 +0000

I still remember the service I canceled by saying, “Look, I was told I could cancel this. If you don’t cancel it, I will hang up to call the police and report I have been a victim of telephonic fraud.”

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:14:32 +0000

I too have fantasized a “FO” button.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:40:52 +0000

Re: “Remind me later.”

neo suggests, “Get lost.”

I’m more of an FOAD kind of guy.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FOAD

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:22:36 +0000

I remember having to send death certificates when my mother died. It seems absurd. At least they let me send a photocopy.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:05:15 +0000

When my father died, I tried changing various accounts to my mom’s name and I got the “send the death certificate” routine. Mom didn’t want to do that, so the accounts remained in his name.

When she died, I took both death certificates to the cable office. I was not amused when I was told that the death certificates were not required. Maybe it was because I had actually walked into the office instead of having a phone conversation. I wonder how many people get their accounts closed due to a prank call?

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:02:23 +0000

The one I’ve been dealing with for several years at least, is the cookies issue. A long time ago I set my browser to never allow cookies to be deposited on my system without a prompt. So I was constantly getting the prompt, and the usual one was “Install basic cookies – OR – Choose additional cookies.” Where is the install no cookies option? I just skipped many web sites because of this.

For some reason, now 90% of the time the prompt has the No Cookies option. I don’t know why it changed, but it did. Maybe the webmasters and their bosses wised up.

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:52:59 +0000

I’m pretty sure I didn’t dream this but when I cancelled my mother’s internet, phone and cable they wanted a copy of her death certificate. I went ahead and sent it maybe I shouldn’t have.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:45:50 +0000

Neo really wants reply buttons which have the sharp retorts she used to give to men hitting on her in bars back in 1967.