I hate Google

 

So, it has come to my attention that getting onto someone's website is a lot easier than getting off. Whenever you log on to someone's website to see what they may have to offer, whether it's for information or possibly to sell you something, you create a virtual mess for yourself.

 

A kind of never-ending spiral which is difficult for you to exclude yourself from. For example, perhaps you'd like to start making cheese. Well, the first thing you would do is look up, cheese products.

 

Makes sense, right?

 

And you would expect to only get information about…cheese.

 

But that’s not what happens at all, is it?

 

No, because the folks who make cheese products also have some type of affiliate link to people who manufacture tennis shoes, perfume and various items to remove or grow hair on various parts of your body.

 

It makes absolutely no sense and the danger is that once you sign on to one website you end up being automatically becoming a member of a multitude of other unrelated websites totally unrelated to cheese.

 

We have been led down the primrose path to believe that we are using the most ‘labor saving’ devices in the history of mankind.

 

To which I say…’Horse hockey’.

 

Nothing is saving me much time at all.

 

You spend more time trying to get out of things than you ever did getting into things.

When you attempt, note the word ‘attempt’ here, to remove yourself from one of the cheese sites, you find that to ‘unsubscribe’ you are faced with the following:

 

Not only are you trying to unsubscribe from the cheese site, but you also must elect to remove yourself from those 15 other sites that you did not want in the first place…all of which want you to select a menu of options ranging from hearing from them on a daily, weekly, monthly, annually or special sales event or headline news posts of any kind.

 

The ‘unsubscribe’ button is in a font so small that you must locate your magnifying glass to be able to read what it says.

 

It is also in some sort of ‘gray’ blurred ink that is almost invisible to read at all.

 

You would think if they were serious about releasing you from their chains, they would have a big red button marked…’punch here to unsubscribe forever’ wouldn’t you? But no…this would be too helpful as well as logical.

 

Now that you have finally located the button and pressed it, you think you are home free, right?

 

Sorry Bunkie, but no, not yet.

 

Now you start to receive the ‘do you really want to unsubscribe’ notices from all of those you are fleeing from. Each and everyone….each new link has its own ‘unsubscribe’ button.

 

These are dangerous as well since they often label the ‘yes’ button in red and the ‘no’ button in green..so if you think the green button means yes , then you screwed up and resubscribed to everything all over.

 

These second chances continue for some time, and may repeat over the next few months or perhaps a year or so.

 

All I know is that I just wanted some cheese and not a lot of hassle. I need all of the brainpower I can have to remember where I left my phone and did I flush the toilet….

 

Have a great day…