Internet Center Management Nonsense

The computers in our Internet Center keep records of every site visited, but management removed the favorites list capability on those computers! What could be the logic for removing favorites list capability if Internet Explorer (IE) continues to keep the history of every site visited?

Until a few months ago, users of those four computers could add frequently-visited websites to a favorites list on each of those computers. The favorites list made it easy to return to a favorite web site during a subsequent session on the computer. Of the many sites visited in a session, the user would typically add none or very few sites to the favorites list. And the user got to decide whether a site should be added to the favorites list and thus be viewable by other users of those computers.

But IE on those computers is currently keeping a history of every site visited! The computers keep this record of all sites visited automatically, sometimes without the computer users realizing every site they visit can be known by subsequent users of that computer! The user can “Delete Browsing History” by clicking on “Tools” in the IE header bar, and I recommend all users of those computers do so. But what if the user doesn’t realize the history is being kept, doesn’t know how to delete it, or forgets to delete it?

The contrast between the favorites list capability management precipitously and wrongfully eliminated, and the current keeping of site-visitation histories on those computers is stark. The favorites lists were helpful to some users of those computers that frequently visited certain sites. No user was forced to add any sites to the favorites list, or to even look at or be aware of the favorites list. But it was available to users if they chose to use it. In contrast, the user can’t prevent IE from keeping the complete history of every site visited, except by deleting it as mentioned above. In short, the favorites list capability was a service to users of the Internet Center, while the current keeping of site-visitation histories allows subsequent users to learn all the sites previous users visited.

Once again our management seems to have its priorities mixed up. It seems obvious to me that the keeping of site-visitation histories would have to be eliminated before any case reasonably could be made to not have the favorites list capability available. And, what is also bad, the favorites list capability was eliminated without any Board of Directors deliberation open to us unit owners.

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