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    I have just noticed the new icons at the bottom of the page and decided to press them...i'm just a quwrazy guy hey!...anyhow they seem to all pertain to various similar bookmark/ tracking services. Do we need these? are they yet more nonsense foisted on us by Google? Is it yet something else to help fund the site?

    I may just be a suspicious Meldrew who should just catch up with these teckonological innovations, but should I be signing up for this sort of service? will I receive yet more spam as a result? or will my life be vastly improved if I take the dip...I suspect not. After all, I worry about security in a week when I understand the govn't have mislaid my wife's bank details.

    In earlier days,one of the great joys of communicating by e-mail and text was its non intrusive nature. Now I find I am bombarded with spam offering me penis enhancing pills, watches, software, ringtones... blah di blah. sometimes 50 a day get past the filters... through these I must wade before I can find my mail. I have had to switch to G-mail but find it difficult to change my business e-mail.

    Fortunately I have not had to change my phone no. like bubblewrap (preference service worked for us) but I do HATE being bombarded with offers to support companies with whom I hold basic ethical differences. I don't agree with this 'chuck it out and get new' consumer frenzy that seems to have a stranglehold on our society. and I certainly don't wish to be force fed a diet of advertising pap like some fois gras goose.

    Come on people don't accept this here!

    My point is I would rather pay a subscription to this site, over and above the magazine one,than each time I log on finding yet more ways of third parties hawking their tenuously linked wares and services through yet more channels, pop-ups, cookies Icons etc. I really feel like signing off... and shall be if this continues.

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    Have no problem with them myself Paul! They don't bother me and I don't intend bothering with them!

    Bit like snakes and spiders I suppose!
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    • #3
      Hi Paul - theres an explanation from GYO with regard to the new icons here:

      here

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      • #4
        Hello Paulottie, have a look at the explanation on the link Hazel supplied. As I understand it , Snadger is right. If we don't bother with them, they won't bother with us. I'm sorry you're so bombarded with rubbish e-mail. I'm sure it's not linked to this site as I don't have that bombardment. Please stay with us as we do really appreciate your contributions.

        From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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        • #5
          No Alice, I didn't mean to imply that the vine was responsible for spamming up my puter, tele, phone or doormat, To be fair,I must say that I can't trace any junk mail to GYO mag. In the past, I did however find the vine a refuge from advertising and am slightly disappointed by the introduction of these various plugs, its a creeping malaise and I just like to register it...although as usual I'm 3 days slow on the uptake!

          Yeah, course I can ignore them, Snadger, I'm sure they are harmless spiders or just little grassnakes. The thing is though I don't really want to adopt an ostrich foreign policy. I don't think I like this direction toward advertising and i just thought it should be mentioned.

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          • #6
            Well, if the Grapevine was open to paying subscribers only, I reckon it would be hosting about three users !
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
              Well, if the Grapevine was open to paying subscribers only, I reckon it would be hosting about three users !
              ...not that we're mean, or anything..!

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              • #8
                I pressed them all, was very disappointed to find none of them were a transporter device of some sort.
                Blogging at..... www.thecynicalgardener.wordpress.com

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                • #9
                  I don't think I will be using them, I'm a bit of a technophobe (if that's the right word). New things to do with computers scare me, I've only just got used to the old ones.

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