{"id":44246,"date":"2014-08-08T08:07:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/08\/oracle-is-always-asking.html"},"modified":"2014-08-12T13:54:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:54:34","slug":"oracle-is-always-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/08\/oracle-is-always-asking.html","title":{"rendered":"Oracle is always Asking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Dear Oracle. I hope that Ask.com is paying you millions of dollars to flog their stupid browser bar and search service, because that&#39;s about how much customer goodwill you sacrifice every time I do a Java update and have to carefully uncheck the boxes to opt <i>out<\/i> of this crap.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know why people don&#39;t update Java more frequently? For me, it&#39;s this.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-jXDcnljfRj8\/U-TY4wuJaYI\/AAAAAAACx64\/O0f3qYsAAm8\/Java%2Band%2BAsk.png?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4EraJ3iU8sN' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Oracle. I hope that Ask.com is paying you millions of dollars to flog their stupid browser bar and search service, because that&#39;s about how much customer goodwill you sacrifice every time I do a Java update and have to carefully uncheck the boxes to opt out of this crap. 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