Tim: >> I thought I'd escaped from this sort of crap when I shifted to Linux, >> all those years ago. I've just started up smplayer and got a pop-up >> saying "you can support SMPlayer by sending a donation or sharing it >> with your friends," with buttons to donate with paypal, and so something >> with facebook or twitter. poma wrote: > SMPlayer is OK, first start opens > http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/first-steps.php > and that's it. I've seen that before, the first running of a new version doing that, which is somewhat annoying, in itself, as it does allow a kind of user tracking. I turned off its check for updates feature, for that reason, as well as it being that my updates would not be coming from that source. But today's pop-up window was a new one. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.16.6-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 15 13:48:38 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
