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Thanks for the tip! TBH, I know almost all the alternative options. I personally use the VLC Youtube Shortcut extension in conjunction with the most recent VLC Player and the youtube.lua file. I have various YouTube Downloaders at my disposal. And I am a great fan of your youtube-dl and yt-dlp releases.

@nicolaasjan and all interested people! I have carried out further tests. After several runs in Pale Moon 32.5.2, the Led Zeppelin YouTube video in the profile with uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 suddenly showed ads. Very strange. But not in the profile with my new, upcoming release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31. Not once did advertising appear in the videos there. Thus, @nicolaasjan's observations were correct. This gave me a lot to think about and prompted me to investigate further, which I have just completed with positive results. At least, I do hope so. The YouTube website is the greatest crap ever. There are many discussion about embedded ads in YT videos and many complaints in the internet. All of them are looking for solutions, but they haven't really existed since the end of last year, You are supposed to pay for ad-free videos. YouTube recognizes uBlock Origin and prevents ads from being blocked. Anyway! At the moment, my new, coming release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31 works great and is able to block these embedded ads as the old version 1.16.4.31b2 already did. I modified the release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 once again to do the same as the new and the old one. Now, I am in testing mode again. Until now, it is working fine. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Backup site for downloading and reviewing, also July 25, 2017, but is up to date. https://download.cnet.com/easy-hide-ip/3000-2144_4-10714026.html

Don't worry. This one looks 100% alive, it's even better than the one you want, also paid. https://easy-hide-ip.com/

This one seems too old, being from 2015. Nevertheless, it also claims to have "Downloads Last Week 42" https://download.cnet.com/proxpn/3000-2144_4-75218501.html

Obviously claimed Windows Vista and Windows XP as supported. The developer site is up, as of this date. https://www.purevpn.com/

I'm adding an alternative, the article (not me) claims it to be as fresh as late 2021. Total Downloads 117,646 For @VistaLover : "Downloads Last Week alone - 94" (assume it won't go offline soon?) https://download.cnet.com/purevpn/3000-2144_4-75617474.html

"as you said, early 2017; ", not me - it was the article which I merely cited. " it appears that the "iphiderpro.com" domain is now up for sale..." - the timing is perfect, usually everyone who is out of business do it after the New Year celebrations. "I found a self-hosted installer of IP Hider Pro v5.8.0.1" , I very much doubt a version that old will work. It's safe to assume you need at least 6.x.x.x.

Happy New Year, too! The link from that post worked, I checked myself. It was possible to download the installer from SoftPedia before the New Year when I posted it. The phrase "before you start a wild goose chase" looks a bit provoking and filled with baseless accusations, I can tell you: it would never be my intention. "SoftPedia aren't hosting the installer themselves". Not always, SoftPedia does both ways, in this case - seems so.

I find 378.78 to be the one, 382.16 is indeed good, too, very nice colour representation, fast.

Current YouTube filters use builtin scriptlet trusted-replace-xhr-response, implemented sometime in 2023 (https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/2743). There's also trusted-replace-fetch-response. Utility functions may be provided by extension itself (/assets/resources/scriptlets.js in current versions), other utility functions may be part of resources at /assets/ublock/resources.txt (in the old version).

We are getting a bit offtopic now, but I have bad experience with VLC (choppy and slow; especially on XP in my VM). On Linux (native) and Windows 7 and 10 (VM's) I use the excellent MPV media player. If you want hardware accelerated playback on older GPU's, request the avc codec (h264) from YouTube. In order to get that, put this line in your MPV config file (example config file here): ytdl-format="bestvideo[height<=1080][ext=mp4][vcodec^=avc]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" And: hwdec=auto The last version of MPV that works on Windows 7 is mpv-x86_64-20230917-git-181eddc (got it from from here). They dropped support for Windows 7.

I also tested there my coming release uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31. No ads in either of the two YouTube videos. And this release also works flawlessly and without any issues in New Moon 28, Serpent 52 and Pale Moon 32.5.2. Under both versions 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 and 1.16.4.31, I don't see any ads in the Ad Blocker Test Video. It stays empty and black. Here is a screenshot with 76 ads blocked:

I know Youtube Downloader HD very well and use it for many years, too. YouTube in web browsers on old hardware is no longer a good idea. This site has gotten worse and worse from year to year. If I nevertheless want to watch a YT video directly in New Moon 28, I use the extension uTube or the service Invidious.

@nicolaasjan I did further tests. This time, I tested uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 in the most recent version 32.5.2 of Pale Moon under Windows 7 on a notebook. I cleaned the profile completely. I deleted all cookies, website settings, cache and so on. I removed all remnants of previous uBlock Origin Legacy installations. I can't see any ads in either of the two YouTube videos. Please, check if you use a completely clean profile and install my mod again! In any case, delete all cookies and settings related to YouTube! Especially the file ublock0.sqlite in the subfolder extension-data.

Thanks for reporting and your kind feedback! Very appreciated! Did you also test the two YouTube videos from the quoted post above in terms of embedded ads? I need urgently further confirmations.

AS ... just discovered this late last night. With all your instructions for installing this new version ... it went well. Thanks for this newer version and all your time involved. I put this newer version on New Moon 28 and Serpent 52 and it all seems good on my end. Thanks again ...

Cool! I've watched Lois & Clark in the past. Will have to revisit.

Some people have bet on the hypothetical "Premium Assurance" that MS sold to companies between 2017 and 2018 before being replaced with ESUs that stated "6 more years of updates after the original EoL date" and Windows Server 2008/R2 was mentioned in it. Also when MS replaced PA with ESUs, it was stated in a document (Page 5) that MS will honor the terms of PA for companies that have bough it, which "proves" that some companies may actually have bought those 6 additional years of support. Some people are confident about the fact at least one company took the Premium Assurance when it was available (as it was a "buy early, pay less" model as this document proves it in Page 4), but they're unsure on how MS will distribute the update packages. The most probable is that MS will just continue to publish them through the MSU Catalog with another layer of artificial locks to "prevent" installing it on systems that are not "targeted" to receive them. Those 6 years starts upon EoL date (so January 14, 2020), which means the actual deadline is January 13, 2026 (which is mentioned in this slide, at slide 11). (If not counting some institutions like the army that will (without any doubt) buy additional support to Microsoft in order to maintain some systems until their decommission because XP is not the only in this case, 7 will probably have a such treatment as well, and also 10 in the future). -- So to correct you on your supposition, the EoL schedule is more something like this (in case we can access Server 2008/R2 updates packages after January): October 2024: Windows 7 x86 (with the EoL of POSReady 7 as Server 2008 R2 is only available as x64). January 2026: Windows Vista, Windows 7 x64. October 2026: Windows 8 & 8.1. (Or maybe *Plot twist* some companies will request more updates to MS, but that's more going into a crack theory rather than a probable thing). -- (Oh and the funnier is on the slide I mentioned earlier is at slide 21 where they just copy/pasted the text because it's written that Svr2012/R2 to EOL in January 2023, which is not the case. But it also describes something more interesting: MS also considered to provide this Premium Assurance plan on Server 2012/R2 and get updates until (October) 2029). The NT6 OSes never-ending lifespans are just hilarious. And Vista will outpass XP as the longest-supported OS with slightly more than 19 years worth of updates (December 2006-January 2026).

I am watching Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. It's been remastered in high definition to the point that you can count threads on people's jackets and grooves on Louis Lane's lips. For some reason Clark Kent's face is sometimes slightly out of focus while his jacket is sharp. Brothers D, I'm sorry it is not available on vinyl disk. lol.

Can you please provide the YouTube link and a screenshot of the ads (maybe, you can outline all ads in red) you see by using uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2-1.54.0 which is on the other hand successfully blocked by uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.31b2? This would be very helpful for reproducing here. I personally had problems to find ads in your last provided YouTube link.

That's right. That's what the developer wrote. "I will not be spending effort to target discord, chromium or steam." https://github.com/vxiiduu/VxKex/issues/79#issuecomment-1564607047 I think we can now forget about it, officially.

I of course wish all the best to the developer! But they write on github, basically no browsers after 109 from 2022 and suggest to use ports from/for Vista.

Kinda like being clairvoyant, all my predictions regarding the super low, non-existent interest in Windows 7 and the kernel have materialized.

I advise to look for more rare LGA775 1600FSB boards to be able to get overclocking to a level that makes sense. Asrock based on g31, for example, if one prefers a budget one.

"It's complicated." I could illustrate some Ghidra flowcharts to answer this if you truly want a complex answer to a complex question. It's something even Opera used to do, I think it was called Opera Mini but I'd have to revisit. The web browser world calls them "loaders" - Opera, PortableApps, winPenPack, X-Chromium, Portable PaleMoon... MAME would call them "front ends". Other similar apps would be called "wrappers" or "sandboxes". 360Chrome's "loader" is more of a "loader plus wrapper" utility. You don't need the "loader" to launch 360Chrome (ie, HummingOwl versions do not contain the "loader"). I use the "loader" because it doubles as a "wrapper". Which is just a generic term that was shortened from what it does - "registry wrapper". I limit the number of programs that are allowed to KEEP data in my Windows Registry. The 360Chrome "loader" stores/redirects registry read/writes to a local .reg. 1000 people will have 500 definitions of what is meant by a browser being "portable", this loader-controlled .reg carried from one computer to the next is "part of" being "portable".

Patience. Scroll to the bottom and you'll see some very promising tidbits.

For those who are curious about the progress of win32ss getting Supermium to run on XP. It's from a tester. ignore the ugly trapezoidal tabs. image is from here anyway https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/18p7wrn/shhhh/

Folks, you should not need to download and install FontAwesome 4.7 manually. The browser should download it (temporarily) from MSFN itself, based on MSFN's CSS. If that's not happening automatically, it's a bug when running under Vista (although downloading and installing manually is an easy workaround, now that you know which font is needed). @win32 has done a great job of making modern Chromium run under Vista, but we shouldn't be too surprised that it isn't quite perfect just yet.

Thank you very much, shelby, I don't use this browser (can't yet), but your suggestions allow me to finally leave behind those funny boxes, here and somewhere else. https://icomoon.io/LigatureFont.zip