Ask The Blogster: How to delete (or change) a Blogger label

Ask The Blogster: How to delete (or change) a Blogger label: This post describes how to delete a Blogger label using the new Blogger interface.   I recently wanted to change one of the Blogger labels...

I need to know how to find the label pull down menu in this new fugly dashboard nightmare.  I loathe this new cartoonish defunct dashboard and especially their excessive use of unneeded HTMl like these...

 <div></div> 

&nbsp, 

<p> </p>

It takes me TWICE as long to do posts because I have to go into their nasty cluttered HTML and clean up am de;ete that crap. Because if I don't, I have paragraph spaces in between every line instead of just a line break.  Plus my OCD can't handle this non functional crap

This is totally Unnecessary!

Besides the fact we were gone for three weeks, this is one other reason, why I don't want to bother posting anymore.  My hubby pretty much abandoned his Wordpress due to that stupid block posting and you can't control or do your own HTML in that anymore either. It's only a matter of time before I end up abandoning this blog.  But the posts will remain.

I don't like surprises and don't like change much either.

Blogger Updates

And if this in ANY way makes it easier to be traced or tracked, or ANYTHING to do with this Scamdemic, this blog will either be history, private, or abandoned.



In addition to a fresh feel, Blogger is now responsive on the web, making it easier to use on mobile devices. By investing in an improved web platform, it allows the potential for new features in the future.

Yeah, it's this ongoing campaign and catering to smart phones just to keep that going, as an excuse to push 5G and "contact tracing" on us.  I knew it!

Remember what I said about ANYTHING "New and Improved" being code word for we corrupted it.  Or in this case corrupted it more.

I don't have to blog, you know.  And right now who gives a crap about what I post on here.  It's not like I have a 1000 or more subscribers anyway, and NO ONE is heeding the warnings I have put on here for a long time now.

Yahoo Mail - Your mail is temporarily unavailable.

Borked Yahoo email services.  Gmail still works, so if anyone must email me, you can use the gmail one.

THIS is what happens when they keep dicking around with things.  If it ain't broke, they'll fix it until it is.

Server not found

Firefox can't find the server at mg.mail.yahoo.com.

    Check the address for typing errors such as ww.example.com instead of www.example.com
    If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
    If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

Your mail is temporarily unavailable.
Please wait a moment and reload the page.
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Try again

Or this...

Those who have my gmail can just email me there, until then...

JS (JavaScript) Overlay Hall of Shame

JS Overlay Hall of Shame

Glad to see that I have company of other folks who hate this annoying shit of the interwebs.

Another annoyed individual expressing his frustration over this internet annoyance...

https://stiobhart.net/2015-05-04-overlays-new-popups/
https://stiobhart.net/2015-08-18-jsoverlaysrevisited/

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Javascript Overlays Are The Pop-Ups 'De Nous Jours'

“Stop shoving crap in my face, if you want me to stay on your site!”

Just a leetle Overlay. Eet is verra theen! [Image Credit: Rex Features]

Remember the bad old days of the Intarwebs, when we used to all get annoyed about websites that shoved pop-up windows in our faces?

I think, somewhere in the ancient bowels of this blog, I once compared such goings on to; a waiter, unannounced, shoving the wine menu between your fork and the plate you were about to eat from and demanding you give it your attention… “RIGHT NOW!!!”.

It’s that kind of level of ill manners.

Well, thankfully those days are behind us now. Most browsers have the facility to block pop-up windows and, although it’s not 100% fool-proof, it works enough of the time that most websites have given up on pop-ups and, these days, you really only see them on the kind of sites which are the dingleberries on the arsehole of the internet anyway.

So, all’s right with the world now, then?

Well, not quite. For, of late, I’ve noticed that it seems an increasingly annoying number of websites are reviving the ‘delights’ of the old pop-up through Javascript Overlays.

Thanks to AJAX and the innumerable Javascript libraries it spawned, it’s possible to cause an overlay to appear on top of the content of your site, whilst someone is in the middle of reading it. This can be triggered in various ways such as: having the overlay appear after a set amount of time, or having it appear when the user scrolls past a certain point on your page. You’ll notice that, like our fictitious ‘rude waiter’, both of these techniques involve drawing you into the content first, then shoving the metaphorical wine menu between your fork and plate. And, unfortunately, unlike with traditional pop-ups, these insidious overlays are a lot harder to block, without disabling Javascript, which would cripple most of the modern intarwebs.

I’ve got so irked by this of late that I’ve started “voting with my eyeballs” by instantly closing any website which does this to me. It can be a bit of a wrench sometimes –especially if I was in the middle of reading something interesting or informative. But I think we should all start doing this, nonetheless.

If, while poring over their visitor stats, the webmasters of all these sites noticed that every time a page stuck a Javascript Overlay in someone’s face, that person left, they’d soon stop doing it.

And here, in no particular order other than my remembering to screengrab them at the time, is a ‘Hall of Shame’ which I’ve snapped over the past couple of weeks while browsing the web. This represents only a fraction of the annoying overlays I’ve seen during that time. But if any of the webmasters in question are reading this: As soon as you threw these overlays on top of what I was reading, I instantly left your site and took my goldfish attention span elsewhere.

So there!

Click on the link to the original articles to see ALL of the examples.
Damn Data Miners!

Link to original article...
https://stiobhart.net/2015-05-04-overlays-new-popups/


And more shame here...

The Face-Shitting Continues

“Javascript Overlay Hall of Shame Revisited [WARNING: Image Heavy]”

Link to original article and more screen shot examples...
https://stiobhart.net/2015-08-18-jsoverlaysrevisited/

We need a cure for javascript overlays aside from disabling javascript

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Adblock Plus Features

https://adblockplus.org/features

You know... Those annoying TROLL TABS that obscure the screen when one is trying to watch a video or do something. NOW I can finish watching this summit in PEACE!

See all this annoying crap on the left side OBSCURING EVERYTHING?
AdBlock fix nipped that nonsense in the bud!

Disable Social Media Buttons

Buttons used to share content on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and others are placed on almost every website that you visit. Even if you don't click them, these buttons send requests to the social network's servers which then uses the information to create a profile based on your browsing habits. Adblock Plus can disable social media buttons from websites, ensuring that social networks cannot create a profile based on the websites you visit.

To enable this feature, open this dialogue and click Add.

Email Shit

Well, first it was AOL and now it's Yahoo.

AOL has gotten to the point that MOST of the time, I can't send out emails UNLESS I exit the email in progress and solve a stupid puzzle captcha.  For NO DAMN REASON, and now they are constantly logging me out.

Now Yahoo has put out a thing about a security breach and hacking that supposedly took place 3 years ago.  Seriously? And they just now figured it out?

I smell a stinky rat.  Although I know emails can be hacked and often are, I think it's all bullshit. Because in order to keep using email, they want EVERYONE to put in their mobile phone #.

I don't have a mobile phone, cell phone or Smart Phone, nor do I ever want one!  I think they want a bunch of brand new phone numbers to sell to God only knows who, just to make more money.

DATA MINING! That's what it more than likely is.  When they INSIST and FORCE users to change passwords, give phone numbers, or else, then something is serious amiss.  I'm not buying it.

And for those of you who want to email me?  Well?.... Good luck with that, as now there are TWO emails that are unusable for me. For those that know what my Yahoo one is, just replace the end with the @gmail.com and I should be able to be reached and be able to respond.

That's just the gmail email only, as the Google+ gives me grief and threatens me too, if I G+ too often, no matter what it is. I skip G+ most of my posts here, and only do it once without clicking the popup share thingy.

Other people are pissed off too, as here are some comments copied from various sites off the web about this very thing. Lotsa pissed off peeps!

Message to Yahoo: I'LL CHANGE MY PASSWORD WHEN I BLOODY WELL FEEL LIKE IT, AND I DON'T APPRECIATE THE CURRENT SPAMMY LOOKING METHOD THAT YOU HAVE RESORTED TO FORCING ON US!!!!

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STOP asking us to change our password. Stop the popuups asking us to update and reload.  I DO NOT want to.  Quit spamming us with email asking us to change passwords.  And get your hands off of our emails and just allow us to simply use email as it should be. Message to Yahoo: I'LL CHANGE MY PASSWORD WHEN I BLOODY WELL FEEL LIKE IT, AND I DON'T APPRECIATE THE CURRENT SPAMMY LOOKING METHOD THAT YOU HAVE RESORTED TO FORCING ON US!!!!

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Quit asking us to secure accounts by giving a noble phone # I don't have a fucking mobile phone to begin with. Damn data miners.

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You're playing with gimmicks you want us to get excited over, BUT you don't have a page on Facebook where we can tell you the problems you are causing for us. I see June Shockey posted just above that she wants you to let her back into her account, which you won't do because she didn't want to change her password.

YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO US SENIOR CITIZENS! MANY OF US DO NOT HAVE SMART PHONES, AND YOU'RE TRYING TO FORCE US TO DO YOUR ACCOUNT KEY LOGIN WHICH REQUIRES USING A SMART PHONE. SOME OF US HAVE SMART PHONES BUT =NO= TEXTING. SOME OF US REFUSE TO GO ONLINE USING A SMART PHONE DUE TO HIGH COST FOR THAT. WE'RE ON LIMITED BUDGETS AND MOST ARE NOT COMPUTER SAVY. 

PAY ATTENTION!

My husband is willing to change his password, though he thinks the demand is stupid, but if you insist on sending a text to a smart phone, it means you are trying to FORCE him to buy one! THAT IS SHABBY! SHAMEFUL! STUPID! We're over 65 and on a limited budget.

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Karen Crichton As if your service isn't bad-enough already, you are now holding my emails hostage until I give you my PHONE NUMBER-?! You have NO RIGHT to demand a phone # for an email account (so you call sell it, duh). 
I'm calling my Attorney General's office as soon as they open. 
Anybody else who's locked-out up-for a class action suit??

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Sharon Pugh Yahoo announced that 1 billion yahoo accounts have been hacked MINE being one of them. In the video, a yahoo rep talks like it's not a big deal and even subtly passes blame to customers for not continually changing their passwords. I can't access my MAIN email account and have tried everything including buying expensive malware. What are you going to do about it YAHOO???

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Ashley Erb Doesn't make sense.. you guys wrote that the hacker is taking phone numbers and stuff but to disable our security questions we need a phone number or alternative account. Make sense?

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Elia Boninsegna Yahoo is insisting wat too much for making me change the password... I don't want to change the password!

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David Chong yes....force me to change password....then force me to registered my mobile number, then they can stole my information inside my mobile....i try not to registered so many time..and i dont want to change my password at the end i can not log in to my email unless i change my password.....the worst thing is i can not contact yahoo...can not speak to any one or communicate with any one in yahoo......

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Charles Kelly WHAT THE HELL is wrong with you, Yahoo Mail?!?!?!?!

I can't log in on my new computer because YOU morons are forcing me to change my password!!!!!!

I DO NOT want to change my password!!!!!!!

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Carlos Martin I can't open my email because yahoo is forcing me to change my password. They suspect i have suspicious activity in my account for no apparent reason. I do not want to change my password, i have been using your services for more than 10 years, and i am a nobody (meaning i don't hold critical information in my email)
Can you guys please give my email back to me?? carlos.martin58@yahoo

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David Erlandson Contacting the BBB. You block all outgoing mail that has info pertaining to guns, the 2nd Amendment, or Trump! I will also be contacting a lawyer. Anti American, anti freedom, and getting sued again... Way to go yahoo!

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Daniel Bredeman There is a reason Yahoo is losing to google. Your shitty security and awful customer service is the reason your company will be bankrupt soon. I have a lot of time sensitive emails that I will be able to get into because you of your incompetence. You suck Yahoo, after using your services for well over a decade, I'm finally done. I will enjoy watching the implosion of your second rate tech company.

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Ed Poe Why is yahoo not doing anything about all of us people who can't access our mail? I deleted my account on 9/25 because I was getting 30-40 pornographic e-mails a day! Last week I tried to reactivate it, and keep getting a message to contact customer care, but there's no possible way to contact anyone! Tried contacting someone through support forums, and am having no luck getting someone to respond! There's 102 pages of people having the exact same problem! Ridiculous! Someone needs to get fired. 20+ years with yahoo mail, and have never experienced so many problems, with no way to e-mail customer care! FIX THIS PROBLEM!

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Ed Angel I am beginning to hate YAHOO MAIL. i AM FN TIRED OF YAHOO TRYING TO FORCE ME TO CHANGE MY FN PASSWORD !!! i WON'T CHANGE MY PASS WORD, but i will delete yahoo from my computer if they continue to try and force me to change my pass word to secure my account. It is as secure as it needs to fn be.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BehindTheOverlay Chrome Extension Kills Overlay Popups

Remember, someone somewhere had put together a Google Chrome extension to block these annoying overlays that are hard to X out of, for the most part.  For an example of an impossible to X out of page is Mercola.com

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/overlay-blocker/fdemahcclkobakgfcofpooooicggkabb?hl=en
THIS one is no longer available.

Overlay Blocker is no longer available in the Chrome store, but they now have one called BehindTheOverlay.  BehindTheOverlay Chrome Extension Kills Overlay Popups.  It works, so far.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behindtheoverlay/ljipkdpcjbmhkdjjmbbaggebcednbbme/related?hl=en

Here is the one for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/

You know these annoying javascript things that have to data mine emails in order to sign up for newsletters, even though there's an option on the sidebars to sign up for them.  And also soliciting for Facebook Likes for their facebook pages, etc...

It may need to be tweaked one some social media websites, so just play around with it and perhaps whitelist some sites, if they don't offer full functionality.  At least this should stop alot of that nonsense.

More Internet Annoyances....

So...,  The other day, YAHOO had added a silly heart emoticon "Valentine's Autocompose." email and totally killed regular email functions! It had totally crashed basic email function. 5 or more hours went without the ability to receive, send or compose emails.

Has anyone ever noticed how many freaking times support techs and everyone says to disable this, update that, etc, give a penny here, and want to SELL some BS crap we don't need... and these things STILL don't work?  Quit blaming all of us for your defunct coding, programming, etc.. in the email program. It wouldn't even let me go to BASIC email, without another stupid error. We don't need the bells and whistles and other  fancy stuff.  Who the fuck asked for this?  I never did. Hello?  Less is MORE.

Yahoo had a major issue on their hands, the other day.  Their stupid valentine's day BS had crippled many users email accounts. "If it ain't broke, fix it until it is."

"If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.", is the new motto of the internet. The old internet as we knew it, has long since been gone. Shitty products, services, surveillance, data mining customers, no customer service, the ever offending aggravating evil javascript, being flashed and scripted to death. Can any of these incompetent and overpaid losers just hit the revert button to 2009?  Or better yet, even back to the year 2000?  The internet was still decent back then.  The same goes for every other service. We would all SOOOOO LOVE that.

I'm here to tell you that The "Spirit of Excellence" has long since left the building.

‪#‎FirstWorldProblems‬ ‪#‎autocompose‬ ‪#‎youhadonejob‬

If You Have Frontier Internet

A long long time ago like in the 90's and early 2000's when the internet was actually fun and simple.

Now it's all about selling a third-world country service at first-world pricing.


Exposing Frontier’s Bad Business
https://badbusinesspracticesfrontier.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/exposing-frontiers-bad-business-2/

DNS hijacking and messing with the DNS Server....
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/frontier-communications-indiana-c494785.html

Fraud and cheating
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/frontier-communications-c157175.html#c1105987

Before upgrading to faster speed, it worked great. Only an occasional problem.   Now it's fucking hell with constant DNS issues that NO ONE can fix, but yes, they do want to sell you something else. There is no such thing as "the spirit of excellence" anymore.  That has long left the building long before Elvis did.

DNS HELL:

This webpage is not available

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET
Hide details
Reload this webpage
Press the reload button to resubmit the data needed to load the page.
Check your Internet connection
Check any cables and reboot any routers, modems, or other network devices you may be using.
Allow Chrome to access the network in your firewall or antivirus settings.
If it is already listed as a program allowed to access the network, try removing it from the list and adding it again.

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This webpage is not available

ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

Hide details
Google Chrome could not load the webpage because workplace.clickworker.com took too long to respond. The website may be down, or you may be experiencing issues with your Internet connection.
Reload this webpage
Press the reload button to resubmit the data needed to load the page.
Check your Internet connection
Check any cables and reboot any routers, modems, or other network devices you may be using.
Allow Chrome to access the network in your firewall or antivirus settings.
If it is already listed as a program allowed to access the network, try removing it from the list and adding it again.
If you use a proxy server...
Check your proxy settings or contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using a proxy server: Go to the Chrome menu > Settings > Show advanced settings... > Change proxy settings... > LAN Settings and deselect "Use a proxy server for your LAN".

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Unable to access the network

ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED

Reload

Hide details
The connection to workplace.clickworker.com was interrupted by a change in the network connection.
Check your Internet connection
Check any cables and reboot any routers, modems, or other network devices you may be using.


And the problem is not that particular website, it just happened to be the one I was on when I did the screen captures and copied the text.   It happens on ALL sites.


I'd like to move to a state where I can get a decent internet provider, without all this bullshit, so I can actually get some online work done in a timely manner.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/20/technology/innovation/chattanooga-internet/

How to FIX Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate

NOW Firefox is behaving!  It was the last damn straw when I could no longer get into Yahoo Mail.

Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com. The OCSP response contains out-of-date information. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_old_response) The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

Screw this shit!  I fixed it!  Give me a cookie or trophy or something!



My screen is different, but the same principle applies.

So....

For newer versions of Firefox, I did this...

about:preferences#advanced

Advanced
General        DataChoices    Network    Update    Certificates

Requests
When a server requests my personal certificate:

Select on automatically
Ask me every time

UNTICK the BOX next to:  Query OCSP responder server to confirm the current validity of certificates

Click out in new tab to view full sized screenshot.