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The owner of the website determines what level of "protection" is used, not Cloudflare. Cloudflare simply gives the tools to the owner. Ok. Thanks to the owners of such websites, their used tools and Cloudflare! In any case, those pseudo challenges and harassments are superfluous.

I strongly suggest you all simply ignore those dimwits. let their businesses go bankrupt. Enough of this nonsense. Recently, I was willing to spend several grands on a bag, yet I have problems with their site. I'll think twice now. And looks like they just lost a customer. In details. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186728-chanel-french-bags-website-err_http2_protocol_error-from-my-ip-blocked-from-vpn-too/

He lied to you, the owner simply put the slider to the "maximum protection". Again, Cloudflare could care less what the owner chooses.

The owner of the website determines what level of "protection" is used, not Cloudflare. Cloudflare simply gives the tools to the owner.

Straight from the Avast Support: So, they're gonna keep rolling out definitions updates for 18.x so Windows XP computers are still gonna be updated, but if something breaks, they're not gonna fix it or release any new update from now on. In theory, given that they won't be rolling out updates, they also won't break stuff (in theory), so we *should* be fine (emphasis on "should"). The only positive thing in all this is that they at least fixed the high CPU usage issue, so normal bare metal systems won't have issues: The reason why I mentioned "bare metal" systems specifically is that there's still an issue with VBoxTray.exe when the new guest additions are installed, but that one will never be fixed. The hope is that this will be addressed by Oracle as it seems to have something to do with Avast's behavior shield which, for some reason, seems to be going berserk with the new guest additions but was totally cool with the old ones. Nonetheless, as far as Avast is concerned, the only thing we know for sure now is that: 1) They will not release any new program update (so any new bug will never be addressed/fixed) 2) They will still keep releasing definitions updates 3) They won't help anyone with XP if you try to go through their support, regardless on whether you have a paid subscription or not It's not quite the end of the road, but it feels like we're slowly getting there as we're approaching 2027.

YouTube under Windows XP - Downloaders, players and browser support This thread is meant to collect and provide all necessary information about YouTube using in Windows XP. As far as I can see, most information here in MSFN spread over various threads, in many cases rather unstructured and not easy to find. I would like to put an end to that. For months, I have been intensively studying YouTube and its still existing functionality in terms of Windows XP. And I can already say that YouTube is still fully functional under Windows XP. But first, thanks to two members of MSFN who are partly responsible for this, @nicolaasjan and @Reino. What did they do for us? @nicolaasjan provides XP-compatible forks of the most recent youtube-dl and yt-dlp releases which are recommended replacements for the old, depreciated ones or the new ones which are no longer working under Windows XP. On the other hand, @Reino provides XP-compatible (and SSE-compatible!) forks of the well-known tool ffmpeg whose more recent versions actually do not work anymore under Windows XP for years. With these programs, yt-dlp and ffmpeg, it is possible to stream or download YouTube videos, convert them, include subtitles (or lyrics) and so on, all in Windows XP. This is no longer possible with the old, official XP-compatible versions of youtube-dl and yt-dlp, and the new releases of ffmpeg. Last but not least, @cmalex deserves recognition and credit for compiling flavours of CPython 3.8.x/3.9.x and much other things that made the development of new releases such as yt-dlp possible at all. Thanks all for your contributions! More about all that in later posts. Feel free to post here software recommendations, tips, experiences, opinions and so on regarding the topic of this thread! In any case, all about YouTube under Windows XP can be considered on-topic here in this thread. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

This happened to me at home only yesterday. That PC is using Win 10 1809. I will get the version info later. You could choose to keep it and re-enable the extension anyways. The Chrome web store does not have any sort of alternative. Also you could say their messaging is slightly deceptive. On both the toast when opening the browser, and on the web store it says it "doesn't follow best practices" which is gives a negative connotation. I'm sure they flag all extension with v2 this way but they could say something like how they are migrating to a new method and these extensions haven't updated to it yet.

@tinman2000 If you had read the last posts of this thread carefully, you would have noticed that Cloudflare does not work in Mypal 68 at the moment. No solutions, no suggestions. Maybe, one of the next Mypal 68 releases will successfully run these superfluous challenges. But I wouldn't count on that. Thanks to Cloudflare!

Then there was a short break for Vista, looks like the engineers finally heard the complaints about the terrible XP and took it into the account, Yet they still somehow managed to insert the non-changeable white folders background ugliness into Vista. Then the terrible, slow, buggy, spying and bloated Windows 7 came out, and the real horror began, so Win 11 is the successor of 7, not Longhorn, therefore, I agree with @Rod Steel!

That's why I usually avoid to modify the hosts file. The more configuration files are involved in establishing network connections, the more difficult to find the causer of issues. On my computer, only the firewall is responsible for the network connections. And Windows 10 Firewall Control Plus XP has been doing a great job without any problems. All configurations can be done with it. Enabling or disabling specific, self-created rules is very easy. No need to do it via the hosts file.

With "planned obsolescence", I don't mean the hardware itself becoming obsolete by design, but rather how tech companies make us think it will become obsolete by excluding it from receiving software updates or compatibility with a newer version of their software, which gives the user an illusion that they must replace their PC with something newer.

So, long story short. The Project VORAPIS 0.9.0.0 script works fine in Mozilla based browsers like New Moon 28 and Serpent 52 which are the browsers this thread is about. And it also works in Mypal 68, all tested by me.

I have a home theatre, 7 speakers, huge, neighbours in the nearest houses tremble in fear when I watch a film. It runs off its own OS. Not sure if 11 can be installed there, I don't want it anyways.

Honestly, I think it's over and over exaggerated. I still use a videocard which will soon be about your age (Ttitan X). And I remember there was a million of articles saying nVidia does something to the cards to plan the "obsolescence". Yet it works. I think it even still gets new drivers! Not for Vista, but 10 or 11, alas.

Windows has been going downhill since Internet Explorer integration to Windows 98, and it also had ads, known as "the channel bar". XP had the fisher-price theme and pre-SP2 versions would nag about signing up for .NET passport service and other things<LINK>, but nothing compares to the awfullness of Windows 11. It shouldn't have existed in the first place! Who in the world thought moving the right-click on file menu options like rename as some stupid icon was a good idea, and why is the start menu re-designed again and now in the middle of the taskbar and not where it's supposed to have been since Windows 95? It's as if the people who designed it have never even used Windows and have no idea about it! They even removed features such as clock with seconds in the calendar 'app', something even Windows 10 has! I guess they needed extra resources for hoarding more data and telemetry for their stupid overhyped 'AI', even though it existed years ago, but now it's 'trendy', so everything needs to have it.

Is this question somehow inconvenient? I'm just curious, nothing more. I'm trying to broaden my future browser path. One example, CatsXP supported XP up to Chrome 87 (or so), Chrome 87 is far more advanced than FF 68, yet CatsXP had a fully working sandbox under XP, how so? And CatsXP still has a working sandbox under Vista.

You want to say, in the original Firedox 68, sandbox doesn't work, too?

Installing and running Nvidia driven card helps certain browsers that would otherwise fail to run with sandbox.

Where did you see that this switch is only for automatic definitions updates? BTW, I have not only linked a screenshot, but also quoted from the online help: That sounds to me not only like definition updates, but also like programme updates. I cannot judge what is ultimately meant by this, as I do not have a licence.

I finally got in touch with the support, I explained them everything, I even showed them the stack trace and sent them the full memory dump along with the logs. Unfortunately, that was all time wasted as they said that version 18.8.4084.409 is from the November 15th 2018 branch and that although they’re still rolling out definition updates, they will not release any new updates to that version. From what they said, I can only assume that this means that any bug discovered will never be fixed and that essentially they don’t care about Windows XP any longer. I know that they stopped testing updates on Windows XP, but what’s the point of supporting version 18.8 and releasing definition updates if they're not checking them to make sure they’re working and even when users report the issues, they won’t do anything to fix them?! I’m so disappointed with Avast right now, which is a shame, considering that I’ve been a user since the days of version 4.8… The last safe version for Windows XP is therefore 18.5.2342. Anything related to 18.8.4084 can be assumed to be faulty. If you're planning to keep using Avast on XP (like me), please use the offline installer to go to 18.5 and set the updates to manual so that it doesn't get updated. You can still get definitions updates, but you will have to block any program updates to avoid issues!