What's wrong with youtube imbeds?

I also see video, on Chrome, both mobile and desktop.

Though the embed plug in could use polishing.
 
It must be my expired version of Chrome, since imbeds work on my old Firefox. I can't update either since they don't support XP. Mine isn't the black blank screen issue as I see videos fine going to youtube, just not these imbeds. I just see a white box for imbedded yt vids here on the forum. Java script was already allowed and I turned off the hardware accelerator in advanced settings, so a setting isn't the issue.
 
XP? Nobody supports it because it's been depreciated and is a huge security risk both for yourself and everyone else on the internet.
 
HK12K said:
XP? Nobody supports it because it's been depreciated and is a huge security risk both for yourself and everyone else on the internet.

To have a security risk your computer must have sensitive info or something of value stored on it or accessed by that computer.
 
Without security updates the computer can be easily compromised, and that can effect others without you even knowing it. It's one of the many ways botnets are able to exist.
 
Not sure where these internet rumors started about security risks with XP. I have it on my PC, and Win 7 on my laptop. I never once had any issues w/ this, and never personally heard of anyone that did. People say this and that, but it ain't happening in my experience. You can put a bot on any computer at any time, regardless of browsers or operating systems. In any case, I highly recommend switching to Brave for your browser. It's based on the Chromium platform, but is not Chrome. It doesn't track you, is faster than Chrome, has a built in ad blocker, and a private window as well as a private window with Tor.

But, it won't run with XP unless you build it from the source code at github. You can also run Epic on your XP machine, as well as Baidu, UC, Opera (which I do not recommend because of the way they track you), K Meleon and a lot of others.

Speaking of tracking, if you have gmail, stop using it, and use google as little as possible. I found a free encrypted email service from Switzerland called protonmail that works really well. It's double encrypted, so even they do not know who their clients are, nor do they have a log of their users, which is pretty cool. They also have a free VPN that I like.

Win 7 is really not so bad. You have to tell it to stop updating and do some adjustments here and there to keep MS out of your life, but in general it runs as well as XP.
 
Rumors, haha. People have been punching holes in Microsoft security faster than M$ can patch them for as long as M$ has existed. When they stop patching those holes it's kind of a foregone conclusion that you're leaving yourself open for exploitation.

But whatever. I'm sure you'll all be fine.
 
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