Occasional Observations

Sometimes, it feels really good to remove software that's failed to meet
my expectations. I got as much of a buzz today from ditching the
hugely-nosey but extremely limited-capability Avant Go as I got, years
back, as I did when I finally managed to remove Norton's bloated
anti-virus in favor of a smarter, more dynamic AV solution.

It was never destined to be a long term thing with Avant Go. As
previously noted, I was concerned by the amount of
personally-identifiable info it collected when I signed up, and of
course as I used the service. The ads were too intrusive and it wasn't
possible to make them go away. And since Avant Go has gone solo and
abandoned ActiveSync, for "quality of service" reasons, I kept
forgetting. But most of all, I was sick of click-thru' errors. I'd
browse the headlines and find an interesting-looking story - then get
directed to a totally different page. Try as I might to find the page I
wanted, it invariably wasn't there. Marks out of 10? Zero.

# posted by Nesjo : 14:51