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filipivich writes:
"Mayayana" on Sun, 20 May 2018 08:44:06
-0400 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| since I _do_ use YouTube, I've left that bit be. (I can't remember where
| I got that information from - possibly you!)

It's news to me. I use DownloadHelper in Firefox.

Me too - in Firefox 27.0.1. Maybe I'll try removing those #s and see if
things still work. I've noticed I sometimes can't save "commercial" type
things from YouTube - but I don't often want to: this is things like
music videos (official ones from the record companies I mean), films and
trailers for them, and such like, and I rarely want these.

If that can't get a video I don't see the video. I've
never streamed anything and don't plan to start.
So I don't need script, cookies, etc to see videos.

I keep having trouble with that - found vdyoutube.com which will
download Youtube Videos.

"works for me."

I like DownloadHelper because it's not YouTube-specific (and does seem
to work on a lot of sites).

This recalls the discussion with VanguardLH. People
vary a lot in terms of what they do online. Someone
who does interactive things like shopping, watching
music videos, and using Facebook, for instance,
probably can't afford to improve their security and
privacy. Everything will break. They're already using
the Internet as interactive TV. So they've given up
most options aside from making entertainment choices.

There are trade-offs.

Always.

Indeed. I buy (mostly from ebay), but I don't watch music videos or use
twitbook. Or bank. (I use telephone banking and find that's excellent.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Never. For me, there has to be a meaning. There's not much meaning in eating
bugs. - Darcey Bussell (on whether she'd appear on /I'm a Celebrity/), in RT
2015/11/28-12/4