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@johk What happens if you switch to the 32-bit yt-dlp variant for Win7 ? https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2026.01.19.143412/yt-dlp_x86_win7.exe That one doesn't come with the curl_cffi Python module bundled (it's currently only 64-bit); some sites require this module to work, but NOT youtube.com (yet) ... curl_cffi is a Python binding (wrapper) for curl-impersonate, not for "ordinary" curl ; curl-impersonate uses Google's BoringSSL crypto lib (not Libre/OpenSSL), making it incompatible with < Win7 (I have Vista) ... curl 8.15.0-IMPERSONATE (Windows) libcurl/8.15.0-IMPERSONATE BoringSSL zlib/1.3 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.6 c-ares/1.30.0 WinIDN nghttp2/1.63.0 ngtcp2/1.11.0 nghttp3/1.9.0 Release-Date: [unreleased] Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ipfs ipns ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli ECH HSTS HTTP2 HTTP3 HTTPS-proxy HTTPSRR IDN IPv6 Largefile libz NTLM SSL SSLS-EXPORT threadsafe Unicode UnixSockets zstd

That's it!!! Oh lord , what a waste of day doing tests back and forth, searching for alternatives, finding BIND9 stopped support for Windows on 9.17.14.... Anything, but not with the x86 build... I'll end with a correction to myself. I should have said that EDNS is not for security only. I always mix it with DNSSEC (which actually is a feature of the upstream curl utility), despite this requires EDNS, too.But, anyway, there is no need for such implementation, IMHO.

It is actually the curl stage, as it is what it fails when can't do an OPT DNS query type 41 hex (65 is the decimal conversion)). No, my DNS server/resolver software doesn't support it. I should have told, but I got tired of test, renames, edits... oh dear... I know the software is old, but trusted, but, also, there shouldn't be need to hardcode EDNS queries on curl. Too paranoid, in my opinion. I tested with the "--force-ipv4" and it is the same. If the curl update is really necessary... I'll have to change the software, but it is really dumb reason :/ It works if I redirect queries to an external resolver (example: 1.1.1.1)... but defeats the purpose of using a local one in first place Do you know what is really curious? That I almost always perform formats queries first, and it does this without a problem (querying correctly an A record for www.youtube.com), but when queries it again (or direct download, without query formats first) for download... In other words, it happens at download time In the version of curl I have I don't have such an EDNS option to test.

Or generally on old machines with a single-core processor. After restarting my computer, it additionally installs or updates some modules like, for example, NNSNAHS (Network Activity Hook Server Service) which makes starting much worse. Now, I get a popup that no firewall is installed for a short time, and Panda gets deactivated. A further one minute later, it finally activates itself. So the start was extended by at least another minute. Not good.

Today, I have uninstalled Panda Free Antivirus 21.01.00 and installed Panda once again but via their online installer. The version installed by their online installer is 22.03.05. The online installer downloads the legacy installer FREEAV_LGC.exe (117MB) and not the common FREEAV.exe (161MB) under Windows XP. Unfortunately, the version 22.03.05 needs much longer for starting when booting Windows XP. It is round about 5 to 6 minutes on my old machine. The culprit is the process PSANHost.exe which places very high demands on the CPU, up to 99%. The previously installed version 21.01.00 only needed 2 minutes. I'll keep the currently installed version a while just for testing purpose but I think I'll go then back to version 21.01.00. The next days, I'll use to see how this version behaves in my system doing all the things I usually do.

I think for a free version Panda Dome is ok. If it is running correctly, the impact is low on RAM and CPU compared with Avast or other security suites in the past. And once again, it is free of charge in the basic version. BTW, I do not need a firewall or VPN. I have already been using the best firewall, Windows 10 Firewall Control Plus XP. And I have several paid VPN services.

I have already provided a solution to activate Panda Dome under Windows XP. Read this post: and this one:

This one I installed years ago when it was released. But I don't think that other Visual C++ versions are responsible for the issues I noticed regarding Panda Dome under Windows XP. In the meanwhile, I have updated Visual C++ 2010 to version 10.0.40219.473 but the issue is still there. Additionally, I repaired my Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 installation as there was indeed a problem. But even this doesn't seem to have any effect on my issue.

Knocking on UDP, trying to make connections via QUIC, broadcasting to literally everything and everyone is the default chrome behaviour. The question is, why (if both @win32 and Alexi are trying to implement at least something similar to Ungoogled) didn't cut it out first. Seems like a very logical (and rather simple) first step.

But people, like Dave-H, are grateful these ports exist.

It's because some write they are, but no one gives a link.

If I'm not mistaken, someone here still tries to tell it's all open source, so no problem to apply the ungoogled patches yourself, what stops you?

Thorium surely does add tracking parameters to your search. &newwindow=1&sca_upv=1&hl=en#ip=1 What's this "ip=1", especially interesting. Looks very much like a command to record/collect your IP adddress.