Hans the Counting Horse convinced a lot of people, too :-)

AC baying for +1 Funny mod points, as always.

You wouldn't believe it!

Half of "people" don't - according to the summary, half of "university students" click anything. There's a fair difference if you ask me. The irony of a clickbait article about impulse clicking...

"I don't take precautions because they make me complacent." I'm glad that the idiots in that article aren't the ones making any decisions in the computer security industry. Note how the CEO of MalwareBytes is the exception in that article - that's the person who's worked with exploits and viruses. Kudos for not having your head in the sand.

"...considering that MS made their OS into a service as a way to push ads for the app store..."

That's not a fair statement. Come now.

They also push ads for Office upgrades and replace your specifically-chosen default programs with their own. So let's not sell them short.

Such as Google Chrome installing as default browser, Google Toolbar installing to IE?

I'm sure Werner Koch could get a giggle out of such a statement.

The mark of a good driver is one who tells themself off for a mistake and learns from it.

After successfully updating Adobe Reader on a customer's laptop, Windows 10 politely informed me that the "default PDF handler was corrupted". It was not. Windows 10 then automatically set the default PDF reader to Edge. Real change happens in the courts, then a few years later is forgotten.

It's not the servers, it's the client-side load placed on the Component-Based Servicing sub-system as a result of the burgeoning dependency/obsolescense trees.

Some still are. You just have to be picky who you give your money to.

Thanks! That's a pretty good list of squashed gripes that I know a lot of people had and the HTTPS is a nice new feature.

Yes to kill videos. Also "yes" to "occasionally use /. polls for this very effective means of feedback"!

I'd just like to say I am going to save your comment and send it to my Matriarch, who has been plagued by junk calls for some time. Your expletive-laden rant is, and I mean this genuinely, expressing the very same sentiment she feels as a fellow victim. And I'm 100% with you, too.