samfp1943This time I bought the bullet. and paid for the upgraded version to be installed...
That literally astounded me. I've been using their stuff for many years, across a wide range of platforms and software, and never had an issue with it.
Is it possible you got one of those 'discount' people who purport to provide software at '10% discount' and then insert themselves as middlemen with middleware for the customer 'support'? I actually fell for one of those things while 'on hiatus' in Erie when I needed an online purchase of file-recovery software on an 'emergency basis'.
Never did quite get all the links to the actual customer support (in Europe) of the package I had supposedly 'bought', although there were all sorts of e-mails promising quick and effective solution.
BTW, the online scan version of Anti-Malware has always run effectively on my Windows environments, and requires no download or local storage at all. If you have a trusted connection or VPN with adequate bandwidth, I recommend you see if it solves the issue you were having.
Today the pop-up ad was partly covered by a Kalmbach ad to subscribe.
Well, the fake update scam pops have now expanded from the Nutrisystem ads to others. Whoever Kalmbach sold the bottom popup feature to is providing a virus-clogged product. And I might add, an annloying distraction. Solution is to hit the "back" button and close the popup, but on every page the virus shows up (about 80 percent the past day or two), this is getting annoying.
Still not seeing any popups..Even more surprising is that when I previously accessed youtube videos under windows, I almost always was forced to watch their preliminary ad videos before viewing the desired content.
But using knoppix live I have never been required to sit through that. I never woud have anticipated this benefit
I have had no popups since I deflated them several days ago.
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Convicted OneStill not seeing any popups..Even more surprising is that when I previously accessed youtube videos under windows, I almost always was forced to watch their preliminary ad videos before viewing the desired content.
This YT behavior is probably not a client side software issue. I see unskippable ads at random both on my Roku and Firefox/Linux Mint. Most of the time they are very short.
Interestingly, I haven't seen those obnoxious pop-ups in a while despite Ublock Origin being turned off on this site. Perhaps the upstream ad wholesaler caught on to a bad actor and cut them off .... maybe.
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MikeF90This YT behavior is probably not a client side software issue. I see unskippable ads at random both on my Roku and Firefox/Linux Mint. Most of the time they are very short.
It does seem hard to imagine. But throughout the past decade I have found using Youtube under windows without being forced to watch their ads to be an extremely rare pleasure. It happens, but maybe in 3 out of every 20 launches. So much so I just came to expect ads all the time.
Since switching to Knoppix, I have not once been subjected to mandatory ad viewing at Youtube. Not even the ones that give you the "skip ad" option after a few seconds...not even one.
Can't explain it, but sure am loving it.
When something suddenly stops working on your computer, the first thing you want to do is review any recent changes you have made...new drivers....updates...new programs...stuff like that. Well, when their ad server got 'broken' I had just switched to knoppix.
Perhaps they search for cookies to determine what ads to show me? (just speculating)
MikeF90 Convicted One This YT behavior is probably not a client side software issue. I see unskippable ads at random both on my Roku and Firefox/Linux Mint. Most of the time they are very short. Interestingly, I haven't seen those obnoxious pop-ups in a while despite Ublock Origin being turned off on this site. Perhaps the upstream ad wholesaler caught on to a bad actor and cut them off .... maybe.
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