Chrome advice please

[PhilDawson8270]

It's hardly there to bully you. It doesn't affect Google's revenue if you update. They are merely informing you that you will receive no further security updates for your browser under XP, as Microsoft has dropped support.

They're being kind and giving you obvious warnings not to do any kind of financial work (online banking, paypal, ebay, online purchasing) through tier unsupported, potentially unsecure browser.

 

[swee'pea99]

That's because it's an important message, not because they want to bully you....

I disagree. There are many such messages built into all sorts of software, but the vast majority have 'Ok, I've got it' buttons, or the equivalent. I haven't come across any others that don't allow you to acknowledge that you have received and understood, or stopped bugging you after a few times on the assumption that you're not a complete moron.

 

[growingvegetables]

So a Google employee says that it can't be disabled, I post a reference to this answering the OP's question, and that makes my post useless. Bizarre.

If you have the message then it can't be disabled. If you don't have the message, such as in your circumstance, you don't have a problem. You cant use your lack of message to determine that the message can be disabled as I'm assuming you didn't have the message in the first place.

I am very sorry - YOUR post was fine. MINE was completely useless - and I managed to fail to convey my meaning too.

 

[Wafer]

I disagree. There are many such messages built into all sorts of software, but the vast majority have 'Ok, I've got it' buttons, or the equivalent. I haven't come across any others that don't allow you to acknowledge that you have received and understood, or stopped bugging you after a few times on the assumption that you're not a complete moron.

You might be exactly the sort of person the messages are designed for. XP is old, it hasn't had updates for nearly 2 years, continuing to use it is a risk, yet despite that you're still using it. The messages may well be designed to be annoying as another form of 'encouragement' to move on as explaining the problem clearly isn't enough.
Or at least to get you off their browser so that when something goes wrong, you don't try and blame them.

 

[swee'pea99]

You say potato, I say potato
You say tomato, I say tomato
You say 'encouragement', I say bullying

Tell me. Tell me twice if you really think it matters. But don't tell me eleven times, twelve times, twenty seven times, because I don't perceive that as 'encouragement', I perceive that as bloody annoying.

As for the 'risk', come on...what self-respecting bad boy is going to be targeting XP?
I have a firewall and Avast, and Spybot & Malwarebytes. I don't feel at risk. I feel fine, thanks.

Anyway, I've swapped to Opera and it's all good.

 

[Markymark]

You say potato, I say potato
You say tomato, I say tomato
You say 'encouragement', I say bullying

Tell me. Tell me twice if you really think it matters. But don't tell me eleven times, twelve times, twenty seven times, because I don't perceive that as 'encouragement', I perceive that as bloody annoying.

As for the 'risk', come on...what self-respecting bad boy is going to be targeting XP?
I have a firewall and Avast, and Spybot & Malwarebytes. I don't feel at risk. I feel fine, thanks.

Anyway, I've swapped to Opera and it's all good.

They are not targeting XP. They are targeting the easiest way to install malware to get valuable data.

May not be many XP users but to coin management, it's 'low hanging fruit'.

 

[Wafer]

As for the 'risk', come on...what self-respecting bad boy is going to be targeting XP?

Seriously? Why would people want to target an unsupported OS that isn't getting security updates? I'd think that was fairly obvious....

Anyway, I've swapped to Opera and it's all good.

The message has achieved half it's job then maybe....

 

[swee'pea99]

'low hanging fruit'.

How very dare you!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Hope the folk with the XP willies don't use cards for shopping in the real world. Millions of XP machines in EPOS settings still in use...

 

[mybike]

Hope the folk with the XP willies don't use cards for shopping in the real world. Millions of XP machines in EPOS settings still in use...

They were getting updates, I think they may have stopped now.

 

[Mark1978]

I am very sorry - YOUR post was fine. MINE was completely useless - and I managed to fail to convey my meaning too.

Haha I see what happened there. No worries.

 

[Jimmy Doug]

If you use the computer for doing nothing more than logging onto cycle chat, then the risks of using XP are relatively low. But if you do any internet banking or buy anything at all on line then GET OFF XP NOW! The threat is very real and you have to take it seriously. You'd be amazed how easy it is to pinch passwords, install bots so that your computer is sending out viruses (which means that you would get into trouble rather than the real criminal), phishing ... basically you'll have no protection at all from everything bad that's lurking in the darkest corners of the Internet. You could change your computer, but frankly that seems an unnecessary expense, or you could install any variety of Linux from Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc and find that your computer works faster and better than it has done for ages (I'd go for a lightweight distro in your case like Linux Mint XFCE). If all you do is surf the net, watch videos, do a bit of photo editing, then Linux is definitely the way to go if you don't want to change your PC and remain safe. That's my penny's worth.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

They were getting updates, I think they may have stopped now.

They've not had updates from MS for years. But they are still in use....
go figure...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

If you use the computer for doing nothing more than logging onto cycle chat, then the risks of using XP are relatively low. But if you do any internet banking or buy anything at all on line then GET OFF XP NOW! The threat is very real and you have to take it seriously. You'd be amazed how easy it is to pinch passwords, install bots so that your computer is sending out viruses (which means that you would get into trouble rather than the real criminal), phishing ... basically you'll have no protection at all from everything bad that's lurking in the darkest corners of the Internet. You could change your computer, but frankly that seems an unnecessary expense, or you could install any variety of Linux from Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc and find that your computer works faster and better than it has done for ages (I'd go for a lightweight distro in your case like Linux Mint XFCE). If all you do is surf the net, watch videos, do a bit of photo editing, then Linux is definitely the way to go if you don't want to change your PC and remain safe. That's my penny's worth.

Fascinating pov. And I say that as an MBCS & CITP.

 

[mybike]

They've not had updates from MS for years. But they are still in use....
go figure...

They've had updates, there is a registry hack that made a PC look like a pos machine & continue to get updates until recently.