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Comment Re:News Sites (Score 1) 42

There are cookie related add-ins that will delete cookies after a certain amount of time away from the site. On Chrome I use Vanilla Cookie Manager and on Firefox I use Self-Destructing Cookie (pre-extension apocalypse)

If websites focus their efforts on incognito mode, I would just use one of those extensions.

Comment How to deal w/ multiple bcast antennae locations? (Score 1) 564

The major networks have antennas located in 3 different locations in my area.

In order to watch a station, I must first aim the antenna in the direction of the antenna. Then I must do small tweaks because if it isn't exactly right, the signal goes in an out. (and this being digital, we aren't talking about a little snow). And inexplicably the "perfect" location for the antenna seems to vary from one day to the next.

And of course one station uses VHF (rabbit ears) and the rest use UHF (bow ties), but that's just one more headache I won't get into here.

Anyone in my situation and did you manage to solve it so that you can use a DVR reliably?

Comment But how can you reliably record OTA TV? I can't (Score 1) 564

I only use antenna TV for NFL football. I would use it for ALOT more viewing if I could reliably record it, but I can't.

You see, the major networks have antennas located in 3-4 different locations in my area.

In order to watch a station, I must first aim the antenna in the direction of the antenna. Then I must do small tweaks because if it isn't exactly right, the signal goes in an out. (and this being digital, we aren't talking about a little snow). And inexplicably the "perfect" location for the antenna seems to vary from one day to the next.

And of course one station uses VHF (rabbit ears) and the rest use UHF (bow ties), but that's just one more headache I won't get into here.

Anyone in my situation and did you manage to solve it so that you can set up a DVR reliably?

Comment Great point:FullfilledbyAmazon has similar problem (Score 1) 77

As for your problem -- The worst offenders are batteries and razor blades. Expensive items that can be faked by experienced Chinese manufacturers and added to Amazons cache. I will never buy those on Amazon!

I have also run into similar issues where one third party seller whose items are "fullfilled by Amazon" gets good reviews for a product like branded vacuum cleaner bags. Then a shady other seller sees the good reviews and lists their product on the same page. But they substitute inferior crappy generic vacuum bags. Then you have a situation where some of the reviews are 5 star and the rest are 1 star and it all comes down to the seller. I end up having to ask the 5 star people over and over again in the comments, who their seller is. This is ridiculous! And I am aware of the problem. Most people just get ripped off for a product they thought had 5 star reviews. Amazon should fix this.

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