smplayer OK

[Tim]

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 at 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.