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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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

I'm using IE8 with all updates on WinXP Pro SP3 and when I go to
www.youtube.com it says I'm using IE7 and should update to IE8 now because
they are going to discontinue supporting IE7. I tried writing to them but
get a message back saying they can't answer all emails.

Do they know what they are doing?

Henry

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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.

Is the whine something in the body of YouTube's text, or a bar across
the top of the screen? If the latter, it's the browser that's producing
it, not YouTube. I _think_ you can turn it off.

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

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"I'm a paranoid agnostic. I doubt the existence of God, but I'm sure there is
some force, somewhere, working against me." - Marc Maron

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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

Any idea how to stop these nags?

The primary browser that I run on my win-98se system is firefox
2.0.0.20.

I have an add-on called "User Agent Switcher" version 0.7.3 and it
allows me to make any website I visit think I'm running any one of
several dozen different browsers running on various platforms (any
version of windows, OSX, even iPhone).

I usually set it so that I impersonate "Googlebot 2.1" - which would
make any website I visit think that I'm a google search-engine robot.

Henry wrote:

I'm using IE8 with all updates on WinXP Pro SP3

What are you doing reading a win-98 newsgroup then?

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.

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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spaying

Spying. Although I propose a motion that we spay Google...

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Lostgallifreyan writes:
Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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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.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
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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'.

Lostgallifreyan wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
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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...