{"id":87,"date":"2023-09-26T05:25:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T05:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2025-08-02T20:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:36:35","slug":"posts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each link on this page will open in a new tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-pale-pink-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-pale-pink-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>1. Site Notifications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Site notifications&#8221; are a browser feature which is widely misused by advertisers and scammers. It was created to allow sites you visit to send you future &#8220;notifications&#8221; &#8211; for example a social media site might want to tell you you&#8217;ve received a message &#8211; and they have to ask for your permission to do this. Unfortunately many sites just use the permission you&#8217;ve given to bombard you with adverts or even fake warning messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"759\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/site-notification-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/site-notification-1.png 759w, https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/site-notification-1-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/2025\/08\/02\/site-notifications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-pale-pink-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-pale-pink-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>2. Will Windows 10 stop working soon?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft is currently showing pop-up windows and full screens to Windows 10 users, saying (correctly) that free support for Windows 10 will end on 14th October 2025. Should you worry? <strong>For most people, the short answer is &#8220;no&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/2025\/08\/02\/will-windows-10-stop-working-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-pale-pink-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-pale-pink-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. What should I do about passwords?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-pale-pink-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-pale-pink-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Is it safe to download things?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-pale-pink-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-pale-pink-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each link on this page will open in a new tab. 1. Site Notifications &#8220;Site notifications&#8221; are a browser feature which is widely misused by advertisers and scammers. It was created to allow sites you visit to send you future &#8220;notifications&#8221; &#8211; for example a social media site might want to tell you you&#8217;ve received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldoherty.co.uk\/pdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}