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Irritating Youtube (about updates)
Youtube is ****ing me off. It keeps whining and complaining that my
browsers are outdated, such as Seamonkey and Kmeleon. (Using win98se). So I use Firefox 3.x and now it's whining that my plugins need to be updated. On EVERY DAMN PAGE I OPEN. I do not get this warning on any other website. Quite honestly, it's none of their goddamn business what plugins I use, nor do I give a **** if they need updating. I use what works, and have no intention to update anything just because they insist that I do. I cant seem to find any way to block their nag screens either. Turning off java script does not do it. In fact then they nag about Java Sceipt being off. What really annoys me is that all the browsers work fine to view their videos and stuff, after I shut all their damn nag screens. It dont tell me *which* plugin is the problem either and I have about 10 of them...... Any idea how to stop these nags? (Yes, I have popups blocked too!) Thanks |
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Henry wrote:
I'm using IE8 with all updates on WinXP Pro SP3 What are you doing reading a win-98 newsgroup then? |
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Henry wrote in :
Do they know what they are doing? Yes. Just don't think it's about the tech, it's about enforced social control. Look at the common thread running through each international news story that Google's actions provoke, especially those regarding censorship and spaying into people's homes, and you'll get to understand this all too well. Search engines that are really a directed advertisement system, and refuses to give us any direct control over search strings and content. The technology was always just a means to an end. They ONLY appear to be inept in our confusion between what we want them to do, and what they're really doing. |
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Lostgallifreyan wrote in
: spaying Spying. Although I propose a motion that we spay Google... |
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Lostgallifreyan writes: Lostgallifreyan wrote in : spaying Spying. Although I propose a motion that we spay Google... Lots of little googles providing competition might be useful, though ... -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Would you like to go to the moon? I'd love to have gone. You'd need a very massive rocket to launch me, of course. But I had no chance - I was the wrong age, the wrong nationality ... Patrick Moore, in Radio Times 3-9 February 2007. |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
: Lots of little googles providing competition might be useful, though ... I wish.. Only one I know of is the absurdly named DuckDuckGo. That actually worked for me the other day, as it ought, as Google once did. I was looking for the thinnest multicore audio cable I could find, because I needed short lenghts of balanced line hookup wire. A metre of 8-way multicore is cheaper than 8 metres of the same core supplied on its own. Google was giving me yards of blurp about tablets and notebooks. It TOTALLY and willfully ignored the terms 'audio' and 'cable', which is rediculous given that those two words make up one of the most sought-after technical terms of all time! I even put the two terms in quotes, as a single string "audio cable", and added -tablet to make sure it got the idea I was interested in audio cables and not tablets! So what did it do? Switched out most (not all) of the tablet offerings and insisted I read lots of commercial blurps about notebooks instead because it had no interest in helping me AT ALL, only to try to force me to lose my mind and become a stupid sheep who had fogotten my own will to live, getting lost in their fervid desire to sell me the latest thinnest consumer widget!!! DuckDuckGo, on the other hand, showed me a bunch of audio cables from whichg I quickly deduced that Van Damme's 2.7 mm OD with 2 cores of 18 strands at 0.2mm OD was exactly what I wanted, so I went and found it on eBAy once I knew what to look for there. If anyone hasn't noticed that Google really IS that bad now, then they aren't really looking and questiong the experience anymore. They don't need competition. The LAST thing anyone needs is anyone trying remotely to be the same as they have become. What they need is people to remind them of the real thing they lost, which has again become a feeble dream. The net had a brilliant reality for about ten years. Such a short time! It's hard to think of anything that can make it good again. But whatever it will be, it must be a LOT more than 'competition'. |
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Lostgallifreyan wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in : Lots of little googles providing competition might be useful, though ... I wish.. Only one I know of is the absurdly named DuckDuckGo. That actually worked for me the other day, as it ought, as Google once did. I was looking for the thinnest multicore audio cable I could find, because I needed short lenghts of balanced line hookup wire. A metre of 8-way multicore is cheaper than 8 metres of the same core supplied on its own. Google was giving me yards of blurp about tablets and notebooks. It TOTALLY and willfully ignored the terms 'audio' and 'cable', which is rediculous given that those two words make up one of the most sought-after technical terms of all time! I even put the two terms in quotes, as a single string "audio cable", and added -tablet to make sure it got the idea I was interested in audio cables and not tablets! So what did it do? Switched out most (not all) of the tablet offerings and insisted I read lots of commercial blurps about notebooks instead because it had no interest in helping me AT ALL, only to try to force me to lose my mind and become a stupid sheep who had fogotten my own will to live, getting lost in their fervid desire to sell me the latest thinnest consumer widget!!! DuckDuckGo, on the other hand, showed me a bunch of audio cables from whichg I quickly deduced that Van Damme's 2.7 mm OD with 2 cores of 18 strands at 0.2mm OD was exactly what I wanted, so I went and found it on eBAy once I knew what to look for there. If anyone hasn't noticed that Google really IS that bad now, then they aren't really looking and questioning the experience anymore. They don't need competition. The LAST thing anyone needs is anyone trying remotely to be the same as they have become. What they need is people to remind them of the real thing they lost... snip I'm not sure I want to wish that on anyone. It just sets one up for clinical depression. When I look retrospectively at what's become of society, and what "passes" for society (sociologically speaking) these days, well, don't get me started... |
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