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Re:YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13 by i386 on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @11:27PM (#1147262)
Do they display that nag screen when you next visit a youtube page once "Continue to Video" has been clicked?

Hopefully, the user gets some sort of warning that their browser is unsupported every time they visit. I suspect even the most complacent of users will want to upgrade if the nag screen is still in their face.

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Re:YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13 by kgrin on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @12:36AM (#1147351)
I'm fairly certain that for most IE6 users, the reason isn't complacency (or even ignorance). It's lack of control - corporate environments with "business-critical" ActiveX controls (yes, really), kiosks and so forth.
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Re:YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13 by rbritton on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @02:55AM (#1147540)
In my experience, it's less business-critical stuff and more "we don't want to pay for new boxes until the hardware physically dies"
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