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[Trev]

Charlie wrote:

We are talking about Smartphones here and they are bigger and put out more light in a dark room.  It seems that many people today can’t seem to bear the idea of turning off their smartphone so they “silence” it by putting it in vibrate mode.  Even though you can’t hear their phone go off in a movie theater, you sure can see that big bright screen when the person checks to see who is calling or emailing them.  This is very annoying to me.

My Flip Phone has a nice camera too.

Flip phone cameras are way inferior to those on modern smartphones.

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Larry B wrote:

Unfortunately this fine program has now resorted to becoming Nagware.  Everytime I boot up, I will get a popup within a few minutes telling me that sites are trying to collect data on me.  What sites do not do this?  Their only solution to fix this is to “upgrade your package”.  There is NO close button for this popup, you need to open Task Manager and click end task and then wait for it to time out and then click end now.  I have turned off all notifications and still get this.

Did you turn off the notifications in the Kaspersky interface?

Settings—notifications, there are several boxes that control notifications.

I find smartphones incredibly useful, for numerous functions, some of which have already been mentioned.

I didn’t see any mention of their cameras however.

I have captured timeless memories of family events, children, grandchildren etc, so conveniently, because the phone is always in my pocket ready to use.

Contactless payment with Google Pay/Apple/Samsung etc has been well appreciated in these pandemic times…

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One issue you would probably face is “throttling”, whereby data is de-prioritized above a certain limit.

T-Mobile/Sprint generally consider any usage over 50 GB/month as heavy data usage and subject to reduced speeds.

Depending on your personal usage, this may be a problem.

Would it not be possible to quote an English site?

This page looks like it’s been translated ten times.

You may have a point…

“Users are starting to have a emanate this morning after an IE refurbish was expelled yesterday.” :unsure:

I found Private Internet Access to be one of the best I tried and the price is at the low end; If you pay yearly it works out at $3.33 per month.
It’s not too technical and the support is pretty prompt in responding.They have servers in Australia and offer a 7 day money back guarantee, so worth trying in my opinion.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

At the end of the day a VPN is just a secure tunnel between two endpoints. For more info about which provider you can trust and respective benefits, etc. then I suggest reading reviews at places like http://whatismyipaddress.com[/B%5D%5B/url%5D or bestvpn.com.

Hope this helps…

Both those review sites receive financial compensation from the Companies whose products they review, so some caution needs to be shown.
A lot of VPN providers provide free trials, which is how I made my choice: trial and error.

Aside from the enhanced security of a VPN, the main use for many is to bypass regional restrictions or “geoblocking”.
By connecting to a VPN server in a specific Country, one is able to access local websites that would otherwise be blocked owing to your real IP address.

True, but IMO the basic premise hasn’t changed, i.e. ‘free’ just means ‘basic’ whilst ‘paid for’ means more ‘bells and whistles’.

With exceptions- Kaspersky doesn’t have a free version, so ‘paid for’ means top 3 protection ( according to your cited sources.)
Bitdefender’s free version lacks essentials too.

EDIT: Found it – Free vs. Fee: Free and Paid Antivirus Programs Compared

Hope this helps…

In case it is relevant, that article was compiled in 2010.

One would have to sign in at least once on Chrome so that the Google account is connected.

I think you have to sign in to your Google account and enable that setting,
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95606

These things may do everything you need, but they don’t do what I am asking for.

What an ungracious response…I’m sorry I made the effort to try and assist.

Ancient technology, but if it works for you…

I do a lot of traveling and find Google Maps does everything I need.

With a Google account, the combination of pre-planning on my laptop and local use of my Android phone makes it very easy.

Downloading offline maps of areas you’re visiting will be useful if cellular data usage is of concern.
https://support.google.com/maps/answer/144349?hl=en