{"id":7365,"date":"2018-02-21T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7365"},"modified":"2018-02-21T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:30:07","slug":"technology-parallels-desktop-for-mac-ad-ware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/02\/21\/technology-parallels-desktop-for-mac-ad-ware\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Parallels Desktop for Mac Ad-Ware"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to launch Windows 10 and an advertisement popped up. I\u2019ve written the company that I want to opt out of everything from them going forward. I also disabled auto-renew for this fall to the next version of Parallels and will be switching to VMWare.<\/p>\n


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