The QUALITY of the surveys on ALL routers combined have drastically declined - Now you find mostly BUSINESS type surveys, and the few consumer surveys which are crap most of the time - There were years where you could get so many surveys due to many academic researchers releasing them - now majority (perhaps more than 90-99% of academic research are on halt) possibly due to uncertainty of a recession - the amount of consumer surveys on these platforms have gone down significantly. It's a great mystery how some are able to earn such good figures when majority of others aren't - there are people who struggle to earn $50 inside 1 month, so it's not fair to say $50 in 10 days is slow and low, because by today's standards it is excellent, some people would surely do anything to earn that amount which is near impossible nowadays. YES normally years ago this time of year was best, a lot has changed in GPT, and GPT is basically going the same way PTC has gone - it's dying.......Only PTC is kept alive because of scams - GPT is flooded with new users all competing with surveys that are not there, GPT is suffering a slow death - a lot of market research is shying away from incentivised traffic.....

Like the decline and phasing out of crowd tasks, we can thank abusers over the years for this decline.

I must admit now I am even MORE confusing reading this last post

So whoever made this g*****mned virus in a lab succeeded, destabilise world economy, turmoil and crisis, they won, I mean seriously why do things have to raise in prices, people are greedy and cannot make compromise and FIX the situation causing rise in prices in the first place - F*** them all - nobody should waste their time and vote AT ALL for this corrupt inept bloody tossers of politicians that are supposed to look out for our better interests, I mean seriously who in their right messed up mind will spend $100 for a head of lettuce - and $70 for a bag of potatoes - even fast food prices have gone up - so people cannot eat healthy and they cannot eat unhealthy, because fast food french fries are also made with real potatoes so what do we do now ? Who are the CRIMINALS who deserve to be in jail and in debt to all of humanity for their CRIME in letting this situation happen ?

The US administration under Joe Biden is a SHAM - having poured so much money in COVID19 relief has allowed people a lot of spending power when the supply chain was crushed - it's a real negligence that nobody has thought of that, and then you have Jerome Powell chairman of the Federal Reserve, the clown that Biden reappointed again (big mistake obviously), he keeps raising and raising interest rates wit the delusion that they must bring inflation back down to 2% and until then interest rates will keep rising, even if they have to rise it to 20% and plunge the world into great depression - will that bring inflation down, sure, nobody will buy anything - but then all markets crash, people lose 80% of their savings and investments, and then what, 1 year later, recession ends, and inflation goes back up up up up - when the solution is to do something about supply chain, that's where the problem happens.

WATCH OUT restaurants might be cutting corners and serving expired foods or low quality.

Watch out for next inflation report coming this week that will show inflation has not cooled down as much as expected, markets will TANK - we *WILL* enter a bad recession in 2023, it will last till most of 2024, expect markets to crash 50-60% Remember my words here in this post.

Meanwhile some rich m*****f***ers are profiting big time and do not mind, they have all the money to buy all the expensive food out there, and people still bother voting for those IDIOTS, nobody should vote EVER again.

There that's my rant for today

valerie wrote: Yeah but you can get stuck that way forever.

My sister said when she was in school she played dumb because boys liked dumb girls. The dumbness stuff and she has been dumb all her life.

I thought it was the other way around WELL let me say this, and if people do not like brutally honest, change channels - People nowadays need not pretend to be dumb - ....... 'nuff said - I must say a lot of girls fall for TRASH nowadays, pure and utter trash, and I guess the same can apply to guys too - people's standards are pretty damn low today.

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tasman1 wrote: New law will make all South Korean citizens younger by one or two years

This is a joke right ? Only two years, that won't make much of a f***ing difference Sure why not, I mean people can change their skin colour (ask MJ) people can change their gender back and forth it's like you don't know nowadays who's male or female, you can easily be fooled, and 30 years later at that drunken conversation at the table your partner you believed was of opposite sex confides in you whilst downing the last sip of her Vodka, that SHE was a HE for the last 30 years SO yeah if people are allowed to change their gender, race, name, etc, why not allow people to change their birth date, age, etc, it's fun, but there are limits you know - it's pointless for a 90 year old git to change his age to let's say 30......kinda bloody pointless BUT, let's say you are 50 and look 30, yeah you can change to 30 years old why not, that's bad if you have plans to retire though

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With the passage of the amendment today, all citizens of our country will become younger by one or two years starting next June, Mr Yoon’s office said in a statement. The new system is expected to come into force in June next year.

So how the bloody hell will this work out against the birth date, that never changes, so let's say you were born in 1980, you would be 42 years old, so with this new law, you would now be 40..........but do you still say you were born in 1980, it does not make any sense - If there are South Koreans here doing surveys this would be a problem, age is something routers keep track of (quality control), they as ask you your age AND birthdate, they can catch people who lie about either one. So it's easy for a router to detect if a person never ages or suddenly gets younger, that would easily cause bans - so is there a penalty if you lie about your age and state your TRUE age and not your modified younger age ?
Advice to S.K. mention your true age not your younger age, unless it is subject to imprisonment and fines, then you must stop doing surveys immediately

We can say the same about all the scams that are advertised on offerwalls, it is the responsibility of consumers to do research I guess, unfortunately these companies do not screen all advertisers, but that is also a thing in radio, TV, Google ads, YouTube, how many genuine ads do you see on YouTube, the majority is for get rich quick schemes and pure utter scams and bullshit - but this bullshit makes it so we don't have to pay a bloody cent to use YouTube and neither do content creators ...... For VPN, it is a genuine service, let's be honest here, majority of people who do use VPNs do so for illicit activity online, just like the majority of crypto currency usage, BUT............there are some genuine uses of a VPN. It's not something offered by ySense but offerwalls, and unfortunately there is no way to filter out specific advertisers, I'm pretty sure that offer walls would not partner with GPTs that do that - People should read the terms of service of Prodege, you know the long text nobody reads anyway When purchasing VPNs through offerwalls, it is extremely important to make sure they are kept OFF when accessing any GPT or any site that forbids it. BUT here's another problem, ySense has a plugin to notify us about surveys - that plugin is always in use and one of the requirements for our checklist, so technically, even if you are not on ySense's site, that plugin will pick up your VPN, UNLESS Prodege adds exceptions to allow VPN use for browsing, but NOT inside any offer wall or surveys - in other words, if you have a VPN don't access ySense or any GPT, and make sue all addons / plugins are disabled. Should offerwalls stop advertising VPNs, no.......some people genuinely need a VPN...... I have never used one in my life, but the warning about VPNs alreayd exists, it cannot be put inside an offerwall though, the companies running walls don't care, they say it's up to users to read the terms of their respective sites.

I also HATE those bloody gambling offers, a lot of those casinos are garbage, they are rigged to the bone and have fraudulent audit claims and misrepresentation - in fact majority of advertisers are seedy, I stay far away from offers, but there are genuine ones too, many, it's up to us as consumers to do the research. Don't even get me started about the PTC industry - how many legit ads have you seen on a PTC, you won't see big companies advertising on PTC, what you will see are mostly get rich quick schemes, MLMs, and bullshit programs, HYIP, gambling - the fraud and scam market has kept crypto and PTC afloat all those years.

ALl I get here is off quota off quota off quota instant screenout, screen out, fake surveys, and once a year or two years, a good day.......this place has not changed one bit, it's all JUNK survey invites, 20-30 minutes screening questions and screen out.

rrksh33 wrote: Avira Antivirus I used this before but not now
Good antivirus software

what about Avast Antivirus?

AVIRA was my favourite and great at the time, when it was run by the original company in Germany. All you did was install their Anti Virus Pro, the interface was excellent, and lots of options to choose from, you had full control on what happens if detection occurs. Apparently in 2020 they were acquired by a US company, since then, company went downhill - the started FORCING people to download an entire security suite, they discontinued the stand alone anti virus pro - you were forced to download the entire security suite, you were forced to download all kinds of extra CRAP even if you don't use it, and MANY of the custom options were removed, now when there is detection it is AVIRA that decides what to do, you are not given an option anymore to just deny access/block or ignore, no everything goes right to quarantine or even gets deleted !!! It also FORCES you to run system scans on schedule even when not a single bloody file has changed on your bloody computer - never increase the price of software and REMOVE features. I am usually very loyal and stick to a brand, but I've had it. I did the same with F-PROT at the time. and Norton.......and McCafee..........let's see how long I last on Bitdefender, which is so far great. and no relying on Microsoft's anti virus built into windows, not good enough, it does a better job than it used to, but detection of virus and malware are not as high as other AV.

After doing research I found that Bitdefender has earned perfect and near perfect scores across the board and does not slow down PC like many other.

The only thing to be careful - many AV suites include VPN, you have to be careful never to use VPN services, I believe bitdefender also has a free limited VPN included in the anti-virus, this must always remain off

I suspect AVIRA uses a fully automated support system (AI), but whatever, their software has become bloated trash. At least with Bitdefender they have broken down their software into 3 tiers - one is just the anti virus/anti malware, the other one includes a firewall, vpn, etc, and the total security which includes all. AND BitDefender serves well as both an antivirus and anti malware, so instead of having avira and malwarebytes running in realtime, I can have only bitdefender.

AVIRA is/was a giant pain in my white arse AVIRA was very decent when it offered its anti-virus software separately - Avira AntiVirus Pro, but now they FORCE you to use their bundled CRAP and FORCE options to you !

SO when I uninstalled AVIRA there was a survey with an open box basically asking why - so I "TOLD" them what I thought about how they operate, and telling them off I did THEN I get a nice AI generated support e-mail telling me that they will be happy to take my feedback and other rubbish - I didn't reply to that follow-up it's useless anyway, I consider AVIRA malware / junkware now.

Yeah whatever Jello pudding, kinda ironic he did commercials for pudding - we all know what the creep had on his mind at the time That SMILE when he made those commercials - anyhow, he got off easy (wait wait, not a pun I swear, I mean the trial and outcome IMO)

So far happy with bitdefender, in fact, I might not even need Malwarebytes anymore, it has received excellent scores in lab tests for both malware and viruses, good bloody riddance to AVIRA and their overly expensive trash.

I've been a very long time and loyal user of AVIRA antivirus, which I recommended all the time on forums. AVIRA at the time was a company run in Germany, extremely reliable, giving you full control of what you want to do and most importantly, a high detection rate.

Unfortunately, some years ago they were acquired (allegedly) by a US company and since then things went downhill pretty fast - They completely changed the user interface and of course many of the options you could disable before were no longer there. AVIRA went from a company giving you full control to a company that shoves installed utilities down your throat, not even ASKING you first what components you want to install, even if you do not want to. Instead of the single AntiVirus Pro component, they started forcing you to install their FULL security suite which is essentially BLOATWARE. You could manage to uninstall some of it, with great difficulty, but they leave traces on your system and some simply cannot be.

A cool feature of the old AVIRA, it allowed you to configure how the software deals with threats. For example, if it found something suspicious or a threat, it allowed YOU, the paying customer to decide the ACTIONS to take. So you could configure the options to "Ask me always", which brings up options to ignore, deny access or move to quarantine, but NO, not anymore, it now moves everything to quarantine, BUT WAIT, not only that, it decides to delete some stuff too, because when you go to the quarantine it's empty !!!! There are many instances where it finds false positives, so you want to have full control over that, NOPE. and the stuff it does put into quarantine, you cannot immediately move it to exceptions, nope, you have to manually add those bloody exceptions.

Also AVIRA then decides they want to run periodic scans of my system at scheduled interval, BUT disallow me to remove scheduled tasks - very bad idea, why in the bloody hell would I want to scan my system everyday unless something new is added, so that is very bad.............. AND oh yeah, the LOGS, on old AVIRA, you could control logs, their locations, the storage limit. Today with AVIRA' you cannot, they remove tons of customisation options that are critical. Do I know where logs are stored NOPE, can I search for them manually, sure, but I get folders with tons of logs which one. Can I access report logs directly from AVIRA, nope.

So surprised yet AVIRA has become more and more expensive over the years......

So enough is enough - My licence is up for renewal in 30 days, I decided to take my business elsewhere.

Now I use BitDefender's AntiVirus Plus component, sure it still does not have all of the c ustomisation features old AVIRA did, it's more simplified interface, BUT it is much lighter than AVIRA, much better at stopping threats, and more effective at catching specific threats, and it has a cool feature - if a threat or suspicion is moved to quarantine, you can instantly add it to the exceptions.

My only complaint for now is the occasional pop-up recommendations to install other of their products, I should not get forced adverts if I am a paying customer. So for now this is what I will be using.

AVIRA is not alone though, Microsoft's own Defender also automatically moves or deletes threats......what ever happened to "ASKING" first ?

Also BitDefender unfortunately forces you to remove malwarebytes, though there are easy ways around that, you must remove it first, install bitdefender, turn off all monitoring, install malwarebytes, and add exceptions.

I use BItDefender and malwarebytes premium for optimal security now, paid user for both, they do not give me quite the amount of options I used to have with old avira, but it is still a far cry better than AVIRA.

Malwarebytes Premium does offer me all those options though.

Once upon a time you could buy one of those "small houses" for under $50k furnished

Guess not anymore - a regular 100 year old house is worth minimum $800k, so those "little houses" would be worth $200k, still cheaper than a condo, and probably more spacious

Nice topic indeed - I had mentioned it many times here before, Australia is known for the world's most largest and dangerous spiders, followed by Hawaii They have giant spiders, some with hairy legs - I have seen very scary photos people took inside their homes, of very large, human sized spider on their screen door, those did not seem like huntsman, but something else, but they were nasty.

The huntsman are not deadly, BUT they are VERY large, and they DO bite, and their BITE is extremely painful, EXTREMELY if you have them in your home or stumble upon them they can perceive it as a threat and BITE you, much like wasps - only a wasp's sting even a scorpion sting is NOTHING compared to that of the huntsman. Some of these spiders in Australia are also very FAST, they run, they JUMP (I kid you not) we do have these kind of spiders here, they are nowhere near as large, but they jump and they are so fast they are hard to catch.... Most house spiders in Canada are harmless though - they have fangs, but they are small and cannot possibly reach human skin even if the spider wanted to - we do have some venomous ones I THINK, like the black widow, but house spiders are generally safe - even the big ones like the daddy long legs, they are big but harmless.

So what is the Australian government going to do about all these spiders over there ?

In Hawaii they have nasty, very dangerous spiders too I forgot what those are called, and poisonous centipedes and other critters - I saw a video someone took in Hawaii, they were at a gas station pumping up and you could see the very large spiders walk on by very close to the car it's like a horror sight in a video game

Have you ever seen that film Jumanji, you know that large spider scene in the attic ? This is what Australia will become, well New York is now facing a rat problem, more rats than humans - in Australia it's spiders - There are rumours also that some of those spiders can FLY too and I kid you not it's true, look up flying spiders they do exist

valerie wrote: I bought a couple of Amazon Fire HD tablets. Those are for gifts.

DO these catch on fire ? You know what they say about Amazon branded products, they are fire hazards
The last "FIRE" I purchased from Amazon was not too impressed with - it was the 4K Firestick - I mean sure it is packed with features and liked the interface, but for the love of God, put more RAM on the thing - Amazon cheaped out big time on RAM and storage so much that you barely have any room to install apps - so that's my only complaint.

valerie wrote: Well I dunno. I don't really think about the guilt or not guilty because it is not me and I am not their judge. I just think if someone is sexually assaulted or molested or rape, they should go to the hospital immediately and report the entire incident truthfully as it happened. I don't think they should show up years later. I would be all for some type of statute of limitations.

WELL if they show up at a hospital it means they have to report it, and hospitals are under obligation to report it (I think?) - The reason people report it years later are many - mainly by fear, they feel dirty, or embarrassed or most importantly they fear repercussions by the offender - a lot of times people are sexually assaulted / raped by people they KNOW, so it makes matters worse. Once someone has the courage to finally report an individual, others usually follow. Another POSSIBLE reason is the money grab reason, when the person in question has a lot of money and people are out to get their share of the pie, though all complaints of that nature should be taken seriously and thoroughly investigated. The longer a person waits the more complicated it gets, because you still have to prove it, and a lot of the times these accusations DESTROY the careers of those accused, I'm pretty sure some of the claims are genuine, but there is a % of those likely frivolous - people may have a different definition of sex assault / rape, etc. What if a person consented or initiated the sex, and then LATER (after the fact, you know after the guy crossed the 'finish' linie) the victims decide it was assault and rape, who would a jury believe, the thing is statistically there is more sex assault and rape from men than from women, but can courts rely on assumptions and statistics ? How many of actual rape victims get justice ? How many men get away with it vs. how many are wrongfully accused ?

Nowadays guys have to be very careful and walk on egg shells - sometimes being too nice and friendly can be perceived as having an agenda or wanting to be in your pants - there are guys who are genuinely nice and have good intentions, maybe the 1-3% but still

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I mean IF it were me, I would go immediately to the hospital and have the cops called and relay everything that happen.

What if that person is living with you ? What if that person is a criminal ? What if that person is armed and threatened you of repercussion if you talk..........it's not as easy as just saying you will go right away and report it. Guns, knives and violence reign supreme right now so it's not all that simple.

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Of course, I realize there are instances such as in the workplace and a person does not want to lose their job so they don't report it. Well, who's fault is that? You made the decision to keep working there instead of reporting it. Therefore you should live with the decision you made. Not show up years later and cry foul.

Yes great point Valerie, this is like SOME victims of male abusers, why the HELL did they hook up with those kind of guys, they KNEW were trouble to begin with - but from the perspective of law, NOTHING justifies assault and rape, which is why this argument could never be used in a case. Sure the good guys are single, the bad guys have a large contact list

As far as Bill Cosby, I was really shocked and surprised about the allegations - who would expect that pudding guy would be an alleged pedophile and sex offender ? That's disgusting - and he worked with kids and was a father figure - Then you have the world's most famous game show host Bob Barker, he had allegations of sex assault by models he worked with, though I heard one of the cases was dismissed, but what about the rest, was it true ? was it not ? I would hate to think that any of the models were gold diggers - they had a very lucrative career and money, they didn't need to rely on any men - so yeah it's shocking to see some people in such positions to be like that. Some allegations of CEOs, those I am not surprised at all - One of them led a popular TV network and was vigorously defended by his wife - goes to show you how much some wives have blind trust in their husbands

tasman1 wrote: Just to jump back to TP topic .

So you can't bake I see, no problem, nothing to be ashamed of

Back to the TP topic indeed - so let's see now, who counts the plys, all I know is that I get the TP at Costco and that's it. No human should really to use that much TP with proper food intake - with the right food intake and fibre your dung would come out dry, not smearing and requiring a wipe. It's hard not to use TP when you have wet stools or diarrhea though - but having a bidet is a must, it should be in every household, you give your arse an initial wash, and you can use a bit of TP to dry or "retouches"

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Ops , something brown on my fingers , must go and wash , back latter

btw , me think to start using sandpaper , it is more stronger than 20 ply TP

Definitely a good conversation when you have guests over for dinner

Yeah the very same Prime Minister (JOKE) who made a tweet and from that moment on hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming in including 95% illegally - when Canada cannot even afford to do ANYTHING about its catastrophic healthcare, poverty, homelessness, unaffordable housing, non existent places to live, lack of enough apartments, affordable ones, etc, "sure anybody can come in we are welcoming you illegal or not" - What we need here is Trump and a nice big wall - People who want to come in should go through the same process, there should be a quota at least based on how much Canada can even help them, which it can't at the moment.

As far as the veteran news, well in a way if I was in his shoes I would wanna ******* die, who wants to live a life of misery, crippled - some people claim they can and lead a normal life, personally I wouldn't be able t, and in my opinion living that way is NOT a quality of life, in some cases it is better to die - BUT...........to be politically correct you cannot just suggest that to someone - that's like saying "Why don't you bloody kill yourself" - so one can say this matter was not handled professionally indeed - though ANYBODY should have the right to request aid to die, providing they meet certain criteria - nobody should die in reality, if Canada gave a shit about its own first, people with disabilities, ill, etc, and offered them proper help and resources, but no - it's no wonder people would rather die.

This very same PM who gave $2000 a month checks to people who did not need them.

valerie wrote: Bake a banana and be quiet.

Assuming he can even bake

I have a hunch, his wife does all the cooking.

tasman1 wrote: Me think they will settle on 2 million , both side will be very happy

No way Kraft will settle a frivolous lawsuit - this is a fraudulent lawsuit - even if it turns out that the claims and advertising should be improved, asking $ 5 MILLION is clearly unreasonable, so bloody what if it takes 15 minutes instead of 10, it's not worth $5 million - the Florida guy is NUTS - it will take him much longer to prepare it himself from scratch, but hey it's Florida, no surprise there, they want their cake and eat it, and spoon fed, hey let's sue Kraft because they make you work so hard, open microwave door, put cup in microwave, set timer, etc, that's too much work, people should get INSTANT mac & cheese out of the box, hot and everything They must be putting something in those foods to make people like that, I consider all these highly processed products like pure GARBAGE, I gag just thinking about it - when are people going to learn to grow their own food and eat non processed shit. I guess people fancy eating chemicals - as long as it tastes good, no problem