Britney Spears' new smell...

Brit; How DARE you!?


I can't smell a thing!





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Panera Bread, Heavy, but light on WiFi

Panera bread locations that have Wifi (not all do), while free, still might come with a price - two prices, in fact:
1: privacy/security - you can forget about it, they track every website you go to and
2: site blocking; one in particular I found rather odd is the blocking of livevideo.com - as they are one of the few from the "ustream/sitckam/blogtv" crowd that actually has an always-defaulted-on Family "Friendly" button!
The problem I find here is that Panera isn't actually checking these blocked sites for contraband, other than perhaps for keywords; such as "twogirlsonecup!". Well, we all know that 99% of those sites are reaction videos and (thanlfully, yet how would I know) not the "real McCoy" - or is it MacCoy? How Dare You, Panera? You need to lighten up or you may find your free access go the way of the dodo.

And, btw, they also block Anonymizer.com - go figure.

Public Access? Net Neutrality? Can anybody say "throttling"?

Panera Bread, Heavy, but light on WiFi

Panera bread locations that have Wifi (not all do), while free, still might come with a price - two prices, in fact: 1: privacy/security - you can forget about it, they track every website you go to as their mandatory logon portal requires 3rd party cookies,  2: odd site blocking; one in particular I found rather odd is the blocking of livevideo.com - as they are one of the few from the ustream/sitckam/blogtv crowd that actually has an always-default-on Family-Friendly button!

The problem here is that Panera's contracted Internet portal provider isnt actually checking these blocked sites, other than for keywords; such as 1girl2cups! Well, we all know that 99% of those sites are reaction videos and not the "real Macoy". So lighten up Panera, or you may find your free access go the way of the dodo.

And, btw, they also block Anonymizer.com - go figure. They cant block proXPN, however.