Ian B Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Started up Chrome today and got this message: You're seeing this notification because one or more of your Chrome extensions have been turned off to make Chrome safer. The extensions didn't come from the Chrome Web Store or were installed without your permission. For your protection, you can only use Chrome extensions that you get from the Chrome Web Store. The extension they have turned off is Realplayer, which I occasionally use to download tutorials and product videos from youtube. Call me cynical but maybe now they own youtube, google are trying to prevent people doing this? In any event, in the process they've just lost a user Any suggestions for a good alternative these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ford Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Does the realplayer plug in let you download youtube vids that you would otherwise only be able to stream? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug phillips Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Some info about this here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ford Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Every time I look at some non-technical user's PC, all the browsers are jam-packed full of toolbars and search extensions that the user has been tricked into installing. If Chrome manages to avoid all that, the loss of the occasional dodgy-but-useful extension for subverting YouTube's copy protection seems like a fair tradeoff. You can always use a different browser when you want to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blokko Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Quoting Roger Ford: Every time I look at some non-technical user's PC, all the browsers are jam-packed full of toolbars and search extensions that the user has been tricked into installing. If Chrome manages to avoid all that, the loss of the occasional dodgy-but-useful extension for subverting YouTube's copy protection seems like a fair tradeoff. You can always use a different browser when you want to do that.A really useful thing that the EU could do would be to mandate that any extra 'services', 'value adds', 'benefits' (using marketing BS) should be opt in rather than opt out (same with newsletters, mailing lists etc.) Java and Adobe (amongst others) want you to update on a regular basis to patch the latest vulnerabilities in their software - every time you do they try to sucker you into taking toolbars, new browser (Chrome?), to change your home webpage or default search engine and so on. Like you, Roger, I'm forever coming across pc's of friends and relatives where there is a whole load of crap that has been loaded onto the machine that the (non tech savvy) owner was totally oblivious to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ford Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Well said (and I'll keep COMPLETELY quiet about the company responsible for Java ...) Also big DOWNLOAD buttons which are actually adverts trying to get you to download something totally different from what you're after. Sometimes it's really hard to find the actual download link in amongst all the fakes. I guess it's the price we pay for (almost) everything being free on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative z7 Posted June 12, 2014 Area Representative Share Posted June 12, 2014 Java ... Grrr ❗ 😬 I use ad-blocker, NoScript (, and Cookie Monster in Firefox.) It cuts out a lot of rubbish. z7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myothercarsa2cv Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I'm with Roger and Blokko. I love Chrome, so basic and does only what I need it to. But it's irritating when these toolbars get pushed upon you all the time. But that I can deal with. My pet peeve is the need to re-jig your startup programs every time you update something like iTunes. Catches me every time. Edited by - myothercarsa2cv on 13 Jun 2014 00:02:31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Elizabeth Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Isn't that kinda the point of the Chrome changes ? Anything downloaded won't installed, only things you have got from the Chrome store ? So you won't get annoying sideloaded crap. Took me an hour to get rid the plugins when I missed unticking a box when updating Java once. Grrrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian B Posted June 13, 2014 Author Share Posted June 13, 2014 Quite agree it appears useful in preventing unwanted add ons, BUT to also prevent you from using extensions that you DO want and have specifically chosen to download is somewhat annoying and UN-helpful 😔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Piper Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 I dodge those sneaky things...even crapcleaner does it. And I avoid anything google...but we have moved to that dark side at work....and boy is it unreliable....calendar is dreadful...clunky and so many appointments don't make it through. I'm a Firefox guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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