12harry
Prominent Member
Like many sites, this one tells me my Internet Explorer 11 is "out of date" (or similar" ), and I need to update... often giving me their no.1 choice just a Click away.
This site has worked with IE11 for many years and I continue to see Videos ( except those on YT, as they insist on using Google Chrome, as I understand - the benefit being I now save a lot of time not watching ).
However, like other Forum sites, the meat is TEXT and this will require very low overheads, so I don't see IE11 failing, unless it affects the processor by dividing the clock-speed by a thousand.... [ GHz to MHz... Wow! ].
As an attempt to "Update my Win10 PC" I used IE11 to fetch "Edge" which I hoped would offer the same stability and privacy as IE11 - since it is a Microsoft product ( well not quite, as it appears to be a "front-end" for Chrome ).... so my Win10 PC has now lost IE11 and I have to dance to Chrome.... which still won't allow access to YT ( saving me time again), yet now I access Forums without any restrictions... it appears Edge has filled-in every detail these site request.... without specific permission ( which I'd withhold.).
No-longer does this site require "other options" when their Cookie page is presented.... I presume EDGE has given away this Option. The Cookie page is not obviously available at Login.
I fail to see that taking my personal details is a "Good Thing" unless I am being paid for it, . . . . . for example we can come to some fee that represents the future income as resellers.
It's noted that very few folk worry about their data and very few Websites have any feedback to improve the customer experience - something that would be seen by other Visitors, so a consensus might emerge. Yet the Cookie notices tell us it improves our experience: by loading up thing we like to see - which flies in the dace of a wide-base forum/sales platform/etc. , since they cannot know what I want to look at. Some are more direct and suggest they use statistics to improve the Site.... presumable by allocating more space to areas that need it..... a task that any decent forum-software should be doing "on the fly".
What I find worrying is that the next "Windows" that Microsoft expects to be paid for will be entirely generated by Google and MS will no-longer be a software company of note.
Do others see this possibility?
Will our favourite software need to be ditched -if it no-longer works with "new windows" - That's once Google gets to dictate Terms? It's "Business" so you can't blame them... except I like to have Choice.
It was suggested elsewhere, that Opera was a good "free" Browser - - yet it appears to be much like Chrome and keeps pushing "Google! as the Search-engine - I'd prefer to exercise my own choice . . . .
Any thoughts, before Google takes over?
This site has worked with IE11 for many years and I continue to see Videos ( except those on YT, as they insist on using Google Chrome, as I understand - the benefit being I now save a lot of time not watching ).
However, like other Forum sites, the meat is TEXT and this will require very low overheads, so I don't see IE11 failing, unless it affects the processor by dividing the clock-speed by a thousand.... [ GHz to MHz... Wow! ].
As an attempt to "Update my Win10 PC" I used IE11 to fetch "Edge" which I hoped would offer the same stability and privacy as IE11 - since it is a Microsoft product ( well not quite, as it appears to be a "front-end" for Chrome ).... so my Win10 PC has now lost IE11 and I have to dance to Chrome.... which still won't allow access to YT ( saving me time again), yet now I access Forums without any restrictions... it appears Edge has filled-in every detail these site request.... without specific permission ( which I'd withhold.).
No-longer does this site require "other options" when their Cookie page is presented.... I presume EDGE has given away this Option. The Cookie page is not obviously available at Login.
I fail to see that taking my personal details is a "Good Thing" unless I am being paid for it, . . . . . for example we can come to some fee that represents the future income as resellers.
It's noted that very few folk worry about their data and very few Websites have any feedback to improve the customer experience - something that would be seen by other Visitors, so a consensus might emerge. Yet the Cookie notices tell us it improves our experience: by loading up thing we like to see - which flies in the dace of a wide-base forum/sales platform/etc. , since they cannot know what I want to look at. Some are more direct and suggest they use statistics to improve the Site.... presumable by allocating more space to areas that need it..... a task that any decent forum-software should be doing "on the fly".
What I find worrying is that the next "Windows" that Microsoft expects to be paid for will be entirely generated by Google and MS will no-longer be a software company of note.
Do others see this possibility?
Will our favourite software need to be ditched -if it no-longer works with "new windows" - That's once Google gets to dictate Terms? It's "Business" so you can't blame them... except I like to have Choice.
It was suggested elsewhere, that Opera was a good "free" Browser - - yet it appears to be much like Chrome and keeps pushing "Google! as the Search-engine - I'd prefer to exercise my own choice . . . .
Any thoughts, before Google takes over?