New developments with my YouTube video 'issue'. I discovered that if I leave a video alone long enough the error message goes away and the video begins to play on its own as normal. (It's still faster to simply refresh the page.) And now, starting today, I'm getting videos that begin with a soft white screen, with small timer in the lower left corner, and a clickable 'skip adds' option screen-right. Never seen that before. Not all videos begin with the soft-white screen...yet. My guess is that the 'issue' and this new opening screen are related.

That is really too soon for the laptop to be crashing. I hope they were able to get everything most valued from the old drive for you. If the man who repairs it is a gamer; that is the first thing they will think to save, lol.




WOO HOO!!! WHEW !!!!






This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 13 2020, 10:10 AM

I really don't like the sound of that at all; urgh. I'm not sure (because it has been so many years since my YouTube changed) - but it does sound a bit like the progression my YouTube took too. I refused to click on anything new they added just in case (because my eyesight isn't good enough to read the address bar and make sure my page hadn't been hijacked or something).

Anyway; nothing I did or didn't do changed what YouTube had planned; which was a way to make money off the vids (either through advertising or by members paying to avoid seeing the ads).

Now all my vids run ads before, during, and after all vids playing. A regular ten minute vid has an ad every minute or so; and each ad has a countdown period of a few seconds where you are forced to watch the ad before you can click on a black button that says "skip ad."

(and their white box trying to talk me into a "free trial membership blocks my viewing of all vids unless I put the vid into "full screen" mode).






This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 13 2020, 10:34 AM

Hmmmm...I thought you switched to Firefox a while back. If so you ought to run a good adblocker, which 'should' get rid of much that you mention here. Except maybe the new white opening screen, I suppose. I use Adblocker Ultimate, but there are others.

I don't remember what happened; but I never did make the switchover to Firefox. I know one of the main issues with Firefox was that I couldn't zoom the screen high enough to see anything. There was some code I could put in that was supposed to fix that; but it didn't zoom it over 150 or 200%; and didn't work for the entire page; just certain segments of it. I couldn't see the address bar; any of the tabs; or read any of the drop down menus at all; and couldn't change the size of the print on them or zoom in on them at all.

Chrome is kind of set up for people with eyesight issues. The zoom of the entire page can be taken as high as 500% and there is a way to set up the tabs/menus/etc with a larger font.

These ads at YouTube are actually on the YouTube vid player itself; they are not "pop ups" or anything.






This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 13 2020, 11:21 AM

There is an add-on called Zoom Page WE that gives Firefox something similar to what you say Chrome does. I've had it installed for ages but never use it, so don't know how sophisticated it is. After reading your response, on a lark I launched YouTube and had the add-on enlarge YT to 300%, its highest magnification. Admittedly, it seemed as if the page didn't 'reformat' (?) itself after expansion, but I didn't give it close scrutiny so could be wrong. Nor did I open the add-on's options menu and see what can be done with it.

Yes, the ads Adblocker Ultimate and its brethren remove are both pop-ups and those embedded by YouTube within videos. (Except, of course, when a creator creates his/her on self-ad as part of a video. Can't do anything about those except click the video beyond where the ad ends.)

I haven't had any trouble with pop-up ads; I think Norton keeps them away. I think the way the ads on YouTube are done = I got the feeling it was part of their "trying to move everyone to a paid membership" thing = which actually; I wouldn't mind paying for a YouTube membership to keep the ads away as long as it was a reasonable amount (not like Photobucket's 400 per year; that was just plain BS).

I'm boggled by the YouTube thing because literally the only time I see that popup is when I'm on mobile.

I'm on Chrome with a couple ad blockers, but I don't think they're the reason.

I did just recently clean out husband's computer. He had half a cat and a full dust bunny!

Sigh. Once again my Firefox extension that gives me old youtube layout isn't working anymore. Tried two others but none work.


Help!

I think...I think that I might go over to the supreme gaming side and turn my pc into a gaming rig. I will become one of the Master Gaming Race .

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Jun 19 2020, 09:21 AM

Don’t be that guy Reaps.

Totally be that guy Reaps. Come to the dark side. We have cookies! All your base are belong to us!

Yes....YES. I must ascend to a higher realm of gaming! I shale become one of the supreme beings!!!



PC Gamers: YAY---Another lost soul has come unto us. So will you use a keyboard and mouse?

Me: I'll probably use a gamepad.

PC Gamer: click.

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Jun 19 2020, 11:02 PM

Being recently bombarded by new Photobucket emails warning me that I am over image storage limits (number of images) for a free account, and that hosting (embedding images on other sites) isn't allowed with free accounts, I at long last took the plunge and cancelled my Photobucket account. I'd not uploaded anything new there in years. Almost every website/forum/etc. I linked its stored images to is now defunct (the old Bethesda forums, a few Everquest guild forums, etc.) or I simply don't update threads there anymore (Minecraft forum, etc.) Image originals still exist locally, so I've lost nothing.

Have to admit I'd have liked to keep my Minecraft "Hill Fort" thread fully intact. Most images of the Fort itself are from later, Imgur, uploads so still viewable. It's the older, non Fort images that were on Photobucket. I could of course upload those same images to Imgur, then edit the thread. But that thread was somewhat complex and a bear to edit without screwing up formatting.

At any rate, it's over and done with now....I hope.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jun 20 2020, 01:28 PM

Looks like I've found a new extension that gives me back old youtube look. THANK HEAVENS!!


Also; I'd like to welcome Dark Reaper over to the PC MR™

{ Godly Divine Winds Blowing. }

I have stepped onto Mount PC Olympus, and the air is fresh and the gaming is ambrosia.

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Jun 20 2020, 09:30 PM

Upon looking at my PC's specs I've deduced that all I really need in order to make a decent low-middle end grade gaming PC is to upgrade the processor and kick up the ram as high as it will go. My video card seems fine for the moment so I won't touch that as it runs at a 3.50 ghz so that's pretty good. I might just for price wise for the moment just buy the Ryzen 5 processor and kick the ram up to either a 16 or 32 gb ram. Throw in a Xbox One controller and I won't have to worry about a console till the PS5 comes out or just stick with the PC.

Was gonna setup my second Win7 backup computer and get Oblivion and Fallout 3 to work. Turns out, I can't. Not unless I get a dedicated graphics card. As of now I'm only using the motherboard. Guess that's why it couldn't even launch Oblivion...


Anyway, that computer now is my parents' backup computer because of that and the one I was gonna give them, namely this one I'm on, my first backup computer I've been on about, is now mine. Updated savefiles for both games and some bits and bobs regarding the internet.

Yeah most games like Oblivion are going to require either a dedicated graphics card or a souped up on board.

I dont know any newer games off the top of my head that will run on integrated graphics anymore.

but you go oblivion though on the one puter?

That was a botched up sentence if I ever saw one

I guess you mean works Oblivion on my first backup computer? Yes. Works nicely although a bit more RAM wouldn't kill it.