Piece of shit software - Crappy software/apps/programs that make you MATI

I used Webroot for years, but then they pulled this shit:

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They got bought out by Carbonite and now you need to re-sign up for your account through their website. Even after doing this, this pop up still shows up after restarting my PC. Just cancelled my auto-renewal, and now I have a few months before looking for another decent anti-malware program. All they had to do was not act like malware with a bullshit pop-up every time you started your PC. Who thought this was a good idea?

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Tangentially related, but it is impossible to email Verizon. Yes, the same company that provides you with internet for your house, cell phone and mobile network can't be contacted via email.

Why this is bad: when you have a difficult issue where they say "they will get back to you" after you contact them via their chat function or by phone, and they don't, you have to go through the whole story with some new person again. You can't just reply to their last email and say "What is the status on my billing discrepancy?"
 
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My Play Store app had an issue where it kept crashing and restarting in the background, ending with me having to uninstall all of its updates. When it next updated, it seems it flipped the "Auto-update all apps" switch back on, causing all of my apps to update. Brave was one of these apps. I am now forced to use the tab grid layout, which is why I had moved from Chrome over to Brave. It has also had a few crashing issues upon reloading pages, whereas it did not before updating. At this point, I only use Brave because of the ease of disabling tab groups. I do not understand why I can't simply go back to the previous version of the app I was using.
 
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For me it has to be Mobile Firefox/Fennec after they switched to GeckoView/Fenix/"Firefox Daylight"
You want to type a URL with a space in it? It interprets it as a search query.
You want to type a search query with a colon or a slash on it? It interprets it as a URL.
Before the switch you could use basically any add-on for Firefox for desktop, now you can only use stuff specifically made for it.
Downloading files on it sucks, there's a 50/50 chance that you won't get to download your file because of some unknown bullshit reason.
 
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I fucking hate .WEBP and google niggering it up by pushing this format. When saving an image, instead of the usual format like GIF, PNG or JPG it will save as a WEBP sometimes.

Right now it's not compatible with most platforms.
 
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ditto said:
IrfanView will at least offer to rename the extension if Chrome has saved it as a .jpg..
Photo Viewer and older software just borks up.
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Facebook doesn't even accept the format I heard even after converted for some reason.
Windows photos loads it, but it's a problem when you are using a gif.
 
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Staffy said:
I fucking hate .WEBP and google niggering it up by pushing this format. When saving an image, instead of the usual format like GIF, PNG or JPG it will save as a WEBP sometimes.

Right now it's not compatible with most platforms.
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I can usually change the extension to something not-retarded when saving the image and get away with it, see if that works for you
 
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HP SMART! FUCK THAT SHIT YOU WILL NEVER BE A WOMAN INSTALLED ON ANY OF OUR PC'S!

We own a lot of printers that we have for specific uses, but the worst we got are the HP ones! Buckle up because I am a little drunk and I want to sperg about these two sons of a bitch!

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I decided to give it a chance to HP and bought 2 of those bastards last year for cheap (like $40 cheap), one multifunction and other smaller one that it is just printer. At first trying to install the smaller one (Let us call it Harry), windows asks me to download a program called "HP Smart", ok I ignore it and went to devices to install the printer and the PC did not recognized the printer, not even listed it on the "Add a printer" panel; I tried different cables, different ports and gave up for the moment and decided to install the other one (that identifies by the name of Horatio) and it had the same issue. A quick google search returned that I need the fucking "App" (God, I hate that word) to install both of them at least on Windows 10. Went into the HP website and decided to manually install that fucking thing... And it is only available at Windows Store.

Fuck that, went again to both product pages and downloaded the "Windows 8.1 driver" which is just a launcher to detect your printer (and to ask for some telemetry) and after asks you again to download HP smart (which just takes you to the windows store because it detected my PC as Windows 10 even with compatibility setting on windows 8), the full package of drivers or just the basic ones for that model (which I wanted). After it ends the download the installation begins and the printer now is not detected... Change USB ports, turn off and on the printer, try more cables, restart the PC... And after the 3rd reboot the printer is detected and the installation begins to download the drivers again and to ask me for more telemetry because why the fuck not?! First test page came out without problems and I tagged out with my SO whom went to install the other printer. "Thank God" we said and called it a day after almost 3 hours of painful installing.

The next day I tried to send something to print to Horatio but the file never left the queue, I went to Devices and printers and there it was on "Idle", opening the settings did nothing and decided to open the shortcut that the installer did just to be greeted with a screen that said "Connect your printer to add it" or some shit like that, then decided to send the same document to Harry and same message, as if they were not installed. Both printers fucked up their drivers!

Since then, I have to physically unplug one to use the other because keeping them off does not keep the drivers from damage themselves. I would get rid of the printers but since they were cheap I do not care if they get damaged by the ink I use for some stuff we sell (we do not buy ink for the smaller printers, we refill whenever we can).

TL/DR: I already hate to download bloatware for stuff that should not require it, just give me the fucking driver. If this is all on purpose to get me to download the fucking HP Smart shit, they almost succeeded!
 
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Doppelmonger said:
HP SMART! FUCK THAT SHIT YOU WILL NEVER BE A WOMAN INSTALLED ON ANY OF OUR PC'S!

We own a lot of printers that we have for specific uses, but the worst we got are the HP ones! Buckle up because I am a little drunk and I want to sperg about these two sons of a bitch!

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I decided to give it a chance to HP and bought 2 of those bastards last year for cheap (like $40 cheap), one multifunction and other smaller one that it is just printer. At first trying to install the smaller one (Let us call it Harry), windows asks me to download a program called "HP Smart", ok I ignore it and went to devices to install the printer and the PC did not recognized the printer, not even listed it on the "Add a printer" panel; I tried different cables, different ports and gave up for the moment and decided to install the other one (that identifies by the name of Horatio) and it had the same issue. A quick google search returned that I need the fucking "App" (God, I hate that word) to install both of them at least on Windows 10. Went into the HP website and decided to manually install that fucking thing... And it is only available at Windows Store.

Fuck that, went again to both product pages and downloaded the "Windows 8.1 driver" which is just a launcher to detect your printer (and to ask for some telemetry) and after asks you again to download HP smart (which just takes you to the windows store because it detected my PC as Windows 10 even with compatibility setting on windows 8), the full package of drivers or just the basic ones for that model (which I wanted). After it ends the download the installation begins and the printer now is not detected... Change USB ports, turn off and on the printer, try more cables, restart the PC... And after the 3rd reboot the printer is detected and the installation begins to download the drivers again and to ask me for more telemetry because why the fuck not?! First test page came out without problems and I tagged out with my SO whom went to install the other printer. "Thank God" we said and called it a day after almost 3 hours of painful installing.

The next day I tried to send something to print to Horatio but the file never left the queue, I went to Devices and printers and there it was on "Idle", opening the settings did nothing and decided to open the shortcut that the installer did just to be greeted with a screen that said "Connect your printer to add it" or some shit like that, then decided to send the same document to Harry and same message, as if they were not installed. Both printers fucked up their drivers!

Since then, I have to physically unplug one to use the other because keeping them off does not keep the drivers from damage themselves. I would get rid of the printers but since they were cheap I do not care if they get damaged by the ink I use for some stuff we sell (we do not buy ink for the smaller printers, we refill whenever we can).

TL/DR: I already hate to download bloatware for stuff that should not require it, just give me the fucking driver. If this is all on purpose to get me to download the fucking HP Smart shit, they almost succeeded!
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Windows and HP make for a frustrating combo. I've found HP printers seem to work best with a CUPS server using their drivers instead of the windows heap of garbage drivers.
 
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Windows and HP make for a frustrating combo. I've found HP printers seem to work best with a CUPS server using their drivers instead of the windows heap of garbage drivers.
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Hahah, you should try having HP's 'small business' printers on a network. If you let HP's drivers install directly, you are completely fucked. If you just set them up by 'adding' them in Windows 10, it's slightly better, but if you don't have a IPv6 network explicitly set up on your local network, but do have IPv6 enabled on your Wireless/ethernet device and on the printer (it's on by default), it points the newly setup printer device on your Windows machine to a link local IPv6 address that changes seemingly at random. There is literally no reason for them to change at all, unless they're shipping them out with identical MAC addresses or some shit.

So you can kind of fix that by disabling IPv6, or by manually setting the IPv4 address against your printer device... but that isn't exactly what I'd call 'intuitive'.
 
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