# BrowserAid
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browseraid/274071
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 10, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browseraid/274071 "2004-11-10T19:54:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browseraid/274071/1 "2004-11-10T19:54:47Z")
I swear to Odin, Zeus and any other God out there that if I ever meet the slimeball who wrote that shit parasite, I’m gonna stomp a mudhole in his chest where his coal-black heart should have been.
The postitive spin I can put on the experience is I now know far more about Windows Registry than I did when I got to work Monday.
Stbl2, I curse you from the Pits of Hell! A whole bunch of other shit registry keys, too.
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### Author:  [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browseraid/274071/2 "2004-11-10T20:03:13Z")
You must, MUST, always include a disclaimer in posts like this that you don’t want to be subjected to a Linux driveby-o-mercial.
Ditto for Mac, Mozilla, et. al.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browseraid/274071/3 "2004-11-10T20:11:53Z")
> [@Waverly](#):
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> You must, MUST, always include a disclaimer in posts like this that you don’t want to be subjected to a Linux driveby-o-mercial.
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> Ditto for Mac, Mozilla, et. al.
You’re probably right.
_ **Disclaimer** _
I have a Mac at home; but I’m forced to use a Windows XP box at work. So for all those disciples out there, I don’t need to be told about the virtues of other systems.
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browseraid/274071/4 "2004-11-10T20:16:42Z")
I’m a big fan of Mozilla/Firefox and Linux, and I think OSX Macs are cool.
But you shouldn’t _have_ to use a Mac, Mozilla, etc to avoid spyware. Fuck the people who write spyware. With a red-hot poker. They are worse than spammers or telemarketers.