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Title: Vanishing avatar
Post by: Highmac on February 01, 2018, 04:20:26 AM
Some of you may have noticed that my avatar has changed. The old one, the Scottish flag, simply vanished. Turned out the site that hosted it has also vanished. I did a quick search and found a site with a very similar name (3D flags), but when I clicked my choice it came up with one of those tiny notices at the bottom left that it was transferring data from Facebook. I don't use FB or Twitter, so just closed the page.

I may be an old cynic ("less of the 'old' please...") but I'm guessing that if I use that avatar in more than one place, FB is given that information. It also showed a link to a site called anyorigin. com, whose site gives no info that means anything to me ("Same-Origin-Policy? Not on my watch. cross domain jsonp access").

That's why you'll be seeing Wile E. Coyote giving his gravity lessons for a while yet smile.gif
Title: Vanishing avatar
Post by: RNKIII on February 01, 2018, 04:57:19 AM
And here I thought it had to do with Brexit....

Bob K. rnkiii
Title: Vanishing avatar
Post by: Highmac on February 01, 2018, 08:32:13 AM
QUOTE(RNKIII @ Feb 1 2018, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And here I thought it had to do with Brexit....


Now, now! No politics here, thank you very much biggrin.gif
Title: Vanishing avatar
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 01, 2018, 09:06:39 AM
I think it's time to revert to the "possession is 90% of ownership" rule. Find an image you like, download it to your computer, use it anywhere you want, let the bots try to find it and send a notice of desist.For a small fee (US cash, only), I can provide you with almost any kind of 'avatar' image you might need. I'm graduating from a local stick-figure school of art soon. cheer.gif
Title: Vanishing avatar
Post by: kimmer on February 01, 2018, 04:06:37 PM
I went here: http://www.3dflagsplus.com/

Not sure if that's where you went and got the FB alert, but I received no such alert.

Was your avatar animated? If so:
[attachment=3485:scotland...nimation.gif]

If you want something different, holler and I'll go grab it.
Title: Vanishing avatar
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 01, 2018, 04:48:53 PM
I want the wind from the east... and at about 4 knots. Too much wind causes the non-flagpole end to become frayed too soon.
Title: Vanishing avatar
Post by: kimmer on February 01, 2018, 05:15:47 PM
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Feb 1 2018, 03:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I want the wind from the east... and at about 4 knots. Too much wind causes the non-flagpole end to become frayed too soon.

No, sorry. The east wind drives up the heat and we bake here on the coast. A cool breeze from the west is best. tease.gif
Title: Vanishing avatar
Post by: gunug on February 02, 2018, 10:56:57 AM
So the windsock should look like this?
Title: Vanishing avatar
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 02, 2018, 02:31:23 PM
No, it should look like this:
[attachment=3488:Windsock.jpg]