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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 05:10 AM
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Argh. Fuck Google!
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Edited on Fri Jun-04-10 05:17 AM by Bucky
I try to google and they've stuck this fucking picture of a beautiful canyon that I'm not able to visit right now as a replacement for the clear white background that I expect from google. WHY, Lordy, WHY?

I'm a serious person, not a three year old who needs to have all my shit decorated to build my self esteem up. I don't do skins or wallpapers or any of that cheesy crap. I like(d) google for its simplicity. But when they put up this big gorgeous distracting canyon in the middle of MY goddamn web browser, they didn't even give me an option to have nothing but a simple no-background background there! Believe me, I looked around for three or four minutes--time they've taken away from my precious web surfing time--searching for an option that says no, no goofy ass wallpaper shit. No right back atcha, consumer drones, there IS no such option. Mwa-ha-haaa!

It's like they're saying "You are going to personalize your Google home page and you are going to enjoy it that way, whether you want to or not. Hugs and goddamn kisses to ya... asshole!"

Gee, thanks, Google.

Hey, look, Misters Don't-Be-Evil-My-Left-Nut-McGoogle, if I wanted a web browser that would try to crawl up inside my head and tell me what to think, I'd go over to using Bing instead! I want a simple white search page like I'm used to and I want a web browser that doesn't try to distract me from I'm doing. I put up with your silly ads cause I know you poor bastards gotta make a buck somehow, but leave my web searching alone. This is my time, not yours.

Now I gotta spend another 3 minutes making my own back ground image--a jpeg document called "blank_white.jpg"--and upload it to your pointless server somewhere in fucking Whoadude, California just so I can browse in peace. I'm sure it's all a part of your big sinister plot to force me to sign in to Google.com or Gmail or whatever, just so you can track all my personal life and sell it to Halliburton, VISA, or the CIA.     Gaaah!   Gnarglfgh!!

And now I gotta spend another 30 minutes bitching about it on DU! Oh, internet, why do you tease me so?
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