(I posted this on the WU 'Privacy Policy Popup' thread recently, it fits even better here)
"Like the OP I have been getting various privacy advisory popups for a while.
Today I got an extensive 'permissions/privacy' popup, with several "opt-in/opt-out" choices, etc.
Since I use a VPN (built into my favored Opera browser) and it shifts my IP location around the world, I assume that today I'm 'located' in Europe and got the full website disclosure. I selected some of them and submitted it.
It would be nice if our own political 'leadership' would ensure our own Net Neutrality, some ISP and telecomm regulation, and extensive privacy protections as the Euros seem to be doing.
Some of the stuff going on could set your hair afire, check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( eff.org ) for some info on the issues (they've been around a long time, and have lots of info on how to protect yourself online and on the ol' smartphone).
Back on WU, now a couple other functions seem to have gone wonky, like updating the "View" section. I wish that WU would quit jacking with the good working stuff.
I have one thing that used to work but doesn't anymore: I used to like to set up the "View" to show 6-8 days of graphing, with the last day(s) as the next calendar day or two. That way you get a nice graph of a week, and it automatically slides into the next day, minimizing your needing to update it.
Now if you specify the last day of the range as beyond today it comes back with a stupid 'calendar error' message, so your last day entry has to be limited to "today".
Not only that, the current day (today) always stops graphing about 1500h in the afternoon, updates/refreshes have no effect. Then you have no afternoon and evening day's graph until after a post midnight refresh.
These idiotic changes were made in the last year or so, you really have to wonder if WU swapped out their reasonably skilled IT/web design crew for a bunch of clueless scriptkiddies."
