Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From?
Date	2018-08-20 22:42 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<fu0ueaF1m6aU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2018-08-20, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 8/20/18 12:03 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2018-08-20, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/19/18 8:34 AM, Lewis wrote:
>>>> In message <ftr58kFltkpU3@mid.individual.net> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2018-08-18, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>>>>> In message <1ntogjr.qfo5c1c07bakN%csampson@inetworld.net> Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> Does anyone know how I might have picked it up? I'm pretty good about
>>>>>>> not messing around with sites that are unfamiliar. It might have been
>>>>>>> done by one of the other users of this computer, in which case I will
>>>>>>> speak to him sternly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is generally installed by the user, often without their explicit
>>>>>> knowledge as it will be a "feature" of a downloaded installer.
>>>>
>>>>> In this case, very likely a fake "Adobe Flash" installer:
>>>>
>>>> Then it's really hard to have any sympathy. Anyone dumb enough to
>>>> install Flash...
>>>>
>>> I'm sympathetic.  Until recently, 24hoursofhappy.com required it.
>> 
>> Are you sure about that? Did you try changing your user agent to an iOS
>> string? Often that's all that is needed to play videos on sites that
>> falsely claim Flash is required on desktop browsers.
>> 
> http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/best-flash-sites
>
> I read about it here. When I tried 24hoursofhappy, it played without 
> flash. The article, written this year, seemed to say it was required.

I repeat: Sites often falsely claim "Flash is required" when in
actuality, if you view them on any mobile device or if you change the
User Agent string of your browser (Safari > Develop > User Agent > any
iOS string) then they play just fine with HTML5 instead of Flash.

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Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-08-17 12:46 -0700
  Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-08-17 15:59 -0400
  Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-08-18 11:08 +1200
  Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-17 23:50 +0000
    Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-08-18 01:42 +0000
      Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-08-18 15:35 +1200
        Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-18 18:01 +0000
      Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-18 17:58 +0000
        Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-08-19 14:52 -0400
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-20 00:16 +0000
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-08-22 23:25 +0000
  Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-08-18 03:09 +0000
    Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-18 18:01 +0000
      Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-08-19 00:18 -0700
        Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-19 17:00 +0000
      Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-08-19 12:34 +0000
        Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-08-19 22:57 +0000
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-19 19:03 -0400
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-08-20 05:05 -0400
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-08-21 01:46 +0000
        Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-08-19 22:13 -0400
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-20 16:03 +0000
            Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-08-20 16:31 -0400
              Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-20 22:42 +0000
                Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-08-27 10:31 -0700
                Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-27 13:49 -0400
                Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2018-08-27 20:39 +0200
                Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-27 20:13 +0000
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-08-22 23:22 +0000
            Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2018-08-29 16:45 -0700
              Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-08-30 15:45 +1200
              Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-30 17:26 +0000
                Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2018-08-30 17:59 -0700
        Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-08-27 10:28 -0700
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Elden <usenet@moondog.org> - 2018-09-01 12:59 -0500
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-03 03:48 +0000
      Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-08-19 23:57 -0700
        Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-08-20 19:19 +1200
        Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-20 09:17 -0400
        Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-08-20 15:58 +0000
          Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-08-27 10:22 -0700
  Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2018-08-19 19:27 -0700

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