[PLUG] Amazon has taken over my computer
John Jason Jordan
johnxj at comcast.net
Tue Nov 5 00:33:50 UTC 2013
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 09:03:23 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> So I was shopping on Amazon and decided to see what Newegg offered. I
>> opened a new tab and typed "newegg.com" in the URL bar. Up popped
>> Amazon's front page. I tried it several times, then in Opera, where
>> it always came up Amazon as well.
>Does it do the same thing if you enter the entire URL in the address bar,
>i.e., http://www.newegg.com/ ?
>
>I always enter the complete URL and have not suffered your experience.
>However, I've landed on several web sites that would not let me return
>to the calling link when I use the back button. Serious PITA that is.
I don't know what happened, but it stopped doing it. I'd still like to
know what caused it and what made it stop doing it.
Then again, I've decided not to buy things at Newegg any more. I only
bought from them once and I'm still getting spams from them in spite
of unsubscribing to everything I can find. That is not acceptable
marketing practice.
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