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Dropbox irks Mac users with annoying Dock icon, offers clueless support

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Illustration of a confused Dropbox user looking at the company's new file browser.

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This is a story I never had any intention of writing. Dropbox updated its file-sync application for Mac last month, and the new version contains an annoyance that I would like to eliminate.

I figured this wouldn’t be difficult, let alone newsworthy: I’d contact Dropbox, explain the problem, and find out if there’s any way for me to change the annoying behavior. If there wasn’t, I’d recommend that they make a small change to their app, and hopefully my message would be passed along to their development team and they’d eventually make a change.

Instead, I learned something both frustrating and fascinating: there are numerous Dropbox support employees who apparently have never used their company’s Mac application and do not understand how it works. As a result, Dropbox’s users have to explain to Dropbox employees how Dropbox’s application works on the Mac.

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Google begins rolling out December Android security patch, squashing annoying Pixel 3 bugs – Neowin

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  1. Google begins rolling out December Android security patch, squashing annoying Pixel 3 bugs  Neowin
  2. December security update brings fixes for memory, camera, and more to the Google Pixel smartphones  XDA-Developers
  3. December security patch rolling out to Pixel & Nexus, factory images and OTAs live  9to5Google
  4. December 2018 security patch arrives for Pixel, Nexus, and Essential Phone  Android Authority
  5. Google Starts Rolling Out December Android Security Update for Pixel & Nexus Smartphones  PhoneRadar
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Android Pie Has An Annoying Pattern Lock Issue That Could Put Your Security At Risk

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  1. Android Pie Has An Annoying Pattern Lock Issue That Could Put Your Security At Risk  ValueWalk

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Good news: Chrome debuts automatic blocking of annoying ads

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Google developers this week debuted a long-anticipated feature in Chrome that automatically blocks one of the Internet’s biggest annoyances—intrusive ads.

Starting on Thursday, Chrome started filtering ads that fail to meet a set of criteria laid out by the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group. The organization is made up of Google and others, and it aims to improve people’s experiences with online ads. In a post published Wednesday, Chrome Engineering Manager Chris Bentzel said the filtering will focus on ad types that were ranked the most intrusive by 40,000 Internet uses who participated in a survey. On computers, the ads include those involving:

  • pop-ups
  • auto-playing videos with audio
  • “prestitials” that cover the screen that include a countdown timer
  • large images that stick to the bottom of a page, regardless of efforts to scroll

For mobile devices, intrusive ads include those with:

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