My guess is that they hadn't touched the driver installer program in years since nobody really uses the DVDs anymore, they just swap in a different Nvidia driver every year. They likely figured getting rid of the toolbar was more trouble than it was worth for a feature that few people use.
Ah you wish they fix the driver. I know someone who had an MSI GTX 1050 and installed the DVD drivers and... They were broken. I mean literally, the GPU in device manager was just NVIDIA something and 3D acceleration didn't exist, Aero didn't work.
Actually, the answer is much simpler: Asus did not want to change anything that was not necessary. All they did over the last decade was to replace the driver installer itself, leaving everything intact. I'm surprised that it did not ship with Acrobat Reader 5.0 and Macromedia Flash.
Probly have a folder they swap the driver out with and ship to print. One guy probly handles it and doesnt touch anything as to not wanting to test a new config change.
I don't think that this is really a contract thing, it's probably more like it's an automated process that was never changed because Asus probably put the employees that worked on CDs elsewhere and all was remaining was a outdated script to build the .iso for the drivers. There's no way Google would want a partner to keep pushing a defunct software towards customers, it just doesn't add up, this don't put them in a good spotlight.
it would make no sense to include both chrome and the toolbar though, unless it was google wanting to reach existing IE users when chrome was still young, the old partnership theory makes sense specially since it was around that time that pc building started to explode in popularity
@@aseldesu For sure there was a partnership done back then, the custom Toolbar installer says so, what I'm saying is that I doubt that Asus still bundle those software because of a ongoing partnership or request of Google. The fact that Asus still bundle it is more likely to be a vestigial of the process for making the CD.
This now reminds me of "Splashtop Connect" that came with an old Gigabyte mainboard from 2008 or 2009, and I thought it was "Splashtop OS" when I tried setting up that PC for my aunt. (Edit: "Splashtop Connect" was an Internet Explorer extension)
@@kbhasi my sony laptop had dual boot with splashtop os and windows 7, it only had a web browser and file manager and claimed to be an os to browse the internet and faster to boot which it is on hdd, it doesn't support modern websites anyway, to make youtube work some years ago i used it from bing and "video" section
@@namesurname4666 As far as I know, the last Web browser for Splashtop OS 1.x was a rebranded and stripped-down version of Firefox 3.x (earlier versions used Firefox 2 instead), the "Chat" was just Pidgin, and the file manager was a brain-dead version of PCManFM. I think 2.x used Chrome instead.
recovery discs years ago used to include like 20 bundled software with xp and vista, the more you pay your pc, the more software/bloatware you get, most of them are free trials and you get constant notifications from them, i remember arcsoft software, nero, mcafee, norton, aol free trial, hp wildtangent games
@@ashii_ii yes can confirm for lenovo and hp sadly, and if you keep it you will receive system pop ups saying mcafee is expired and all kinds of messages to install mcafee browser extension and to pay the license, full screen warnings every time you boot your pc
I actually tried Windows 8 mode in Chrome few times back in around 2013~2014 for fun, was using Windows 8.1 at that time. It will enable ChromeOS like desktop with taskbar at the bottom, but you can't change the wallpapers. If anyone's wondering what it looks like.
My gigabyte motherboard from 2018 in its app center software when I check for updates in the not installed tab and if I scroll all the way down I see google toolbar AND NORTON INTERNET SECURITY
Me too! Ugh, I ended up removing the whole thing on mine because I was massively annoyed with it constantly asking me to update, and it would attempt to update the lighting effect controller software to an incompatible version!!! Copied and pasted from my comment: This reminds me of the annoying bloatware that Gigabyte's utilities try to install by default when it keeps prompting me to update drivers to versions not compatible with my mainboard and it also installs bloatware including Google Chrome (I'd rather use Pale Moon) and a few other things if I blindly click the "update" button, so much so that I removed the Gigabyte utilities! Ugh! No wonder why I prefer ASUS and/or MSI! You can go to Gigabyte's website and download drivers for the GA-Z270-UD3P!
The signature is most likely updated every few months as a part of the automated build process. A reason for why may be to ensure that it will still be valid for the most amount of time possible (if those kinds of signatures expire idk). The copyright date is different because it can only be changed if the software changed. So that means it was last updated in 2018.
(if those kinds of signatures expire idk). usually the timestamp section is designed to say when it was signed, so that they dont expire.. nevermind that that makes the signature expirey totally pointless but whatever.
I love that they're including an eight year old browser with a new GPU L O L that's incredible And the version of the toolbar they're including isn't even the latest!! That's a really forgotten part of ASUS' drivers
When I built my PC I used the CD that came with the GPU/motherboard and have not upgraded any drivers since. It’s easy to reinstall since it’s on a physical media.
Well, I know what my next graphics card will be! Also, wow! I never expected you to go to 200K subscribers so fast! Been watching since 2018! I remember when you had 50K in 2020!
Here’s why: they used some proprietary installer to build the CD/DVD image, it only runs on Windows XP and uses DRM that doesn’t exist. They kept a machine around to build it, but they needed to warranty the motherboard and ASUS’s warranty team pretended it was physically damaged and would cost $300 to fix. Nobody would approve it, because who cares? To this day, the machine sits on someone’s desk, motherboard removed, waiting.
@ Michael MJD There is no mystery in Google Toolbar. Bing, Yandex and Google have referral programs for every install. It's an easy way to integrate Search engine on Windows systems in every browser at once. Also Bars was first implementation of internet telemetry system. Yandex was offering YandexBar openly till ~2012, it was basically up to 5USD per install, after that they changed policy. But didn't kill bar instantly cuz it was proved as great spyware, so they used it for "internet manual labor" - Yandex Toloka. If you will search any old Russian games torrents(Google also did that one too) - there will be silent install of YandexBar. And 5USD was one of largest bounty's. And BingBar was renewed with Microsoft Rewards. And after 2013 - Amazon referral program started to be most profitable and basically killed entire thing. Google Toolbar is a most tricky one of them all, they was offering reward for Google Chrome install, but not for Toolbar as i remember. It still a part of GoogleAdsense referral program that active till today. I have no idea how it's works, probably a 10% share from ads.
The most likely reason why this is still in there is as you say partially due to a deal with Google way back when. However it has most likely expired now, but as the image maker have already been set up and made, and is possibly automated. It keeps throwing in the Google Chrome and Toolbar from the days of old when they make the disc image, and since nobody wants to invest the time to change the tool and printing of the discs, it is just left to auto bundle them with their discs for the foreseeable future.
Back in the day every installer included Google Toolbar, while setting up a retro system recently I know that I ended up with an even older version of Google Toolbar installed. Guess Asus just forgot about it, more than Google anyway.
chrome and google toolbar has been on ASUS gpu driver DVD since at least 2015. They even ship a very outdated version of chrome. Those discs are left in the box and we are told to download directly from Nvidia Also, the “launch chrome in windows 8 mode” was a thing for Windows 8 where chrome gets the whole screen with what looked like Chrome OS back in the day with its own windowing and web apps
I recently got a new asus motherboard after so many years of using the CD drivers from previous motherboards and made the mistake of using one. Didn't have Google toolbar though.
I just got my MSI B560 Torpedo motherboard and the manual mentions Chrome, Toolbar and Norton Internet Security as well. EDIT:The driver disc has an installer that mentions Google Toolbar, but it does not actually contain the software, I uploaded a video on it.
I still keep a Blu-Ray drive in my PC. And it occasionally comes in useful. I just bought a TV show on DVD, because You can't buy all Seasons Digitally in Europe. I ordered them from the US (Region 1) if only costs 21 Euro including shipping and in Europe (Region 2) 60 Euro. Disadvantage I can't play them on an European DVD Player (an X-Box one S in my Case) because of Region Lock but I can play them on a PC using VLC and the additional Library, as well as using Handbreak to converting them into m4v Files and Play them the X-Box. TLDR: Disk Drives are useful and I would never pass on the option.
This reminds me of the annoying bloatware that Gigabyte's utilities try to install by default when it keeps prompting me to update drivers to versions not compatible with my mainboard and it also installs bloatware including Google Chrome (I'd rather use Pale Moon) and a few other things if I blindly click the "update" button, so much so that I removed the Gigabyte utilities! Ugh! No wonder why I prefer ASUS and/or MSI! You can go to Gigabyte's website and download drivers for the GA-Z270-UD3P! (6:23) I can confirm, Zotac just puts a piece of paper in the box asking users to go directly to NVIDIA's support website to download the actual driver and then to Zotac's website to download Firestorm if the card has RGB lighting effects. (9:35) Oh wow, the old ASUS rainbow graphic… (9:58) That setup icon looks like one for Adobe Reader 9 to me!
Legit never use any of the driver cd's at all. Mostly due to the fact My pc isn't even compatible with one unless you use a external (Corner class pc case) and also the drivers will be several versions behind anyways so downloading them off the internet is a way better option.
I got curious and check my asus motherboard disc. It has the install files for the toolbar but no actual mention of it in the menu. Chrome also seems to be an old version.
My guess is 2014 is the last time they cared about their driver cd, after that they probably just threw in an updated driver and called it a day. Makes sense, I don't think I used the driver cd ever since I had decent internet, somewhere in the 0's
My grandma still got installed Google toolbar on her HP Pavillion dv6 back from 2009, and it’s appearing only in installed apps in settings, and that’s it, not in the browser.
The only reason cds still exist with computer parts is so they can ship with a complete product, so people without internet can still use the product lol. The Google toolbar thing is probably just "we haven't decided to NOT do it, and some people may still find it useful in some situations."
At 16:17 when the version number is shown, in braces it says ASVA. I guess it means ASUS Value Add, so this is how it knows it is part of a bundle. The other version number shown at 16:25 has GGHQ in braces, which could mean Google Headquarters? As in, downloaded straight from Google.
This isn't just limited to ASUS driver CD's, I have two Gigabyte motherboards (one is an AMD 970 motherboard and the other is a b450 motherboard), and they both come with Google Chrome and the Google toolbar. I think this is a pretty common practice with driver CD's, since almost every product I've bought that had a driver CD has had Chrome and the Google Toolbar on the CD.
Asus probably has a build script they've been using for years where they just drop[ in the driver files for whatever that particular card series uses, partially so they don't have to reinvent it each time, and also to be sure any required legal notices and such get included. Getting the "Google Crap (TM)" removed would require getting the Legal department to approve it. And Legal doesn't approve anything. But these days I don't need to download the drivers manually, because Fedora either has the drivers already in place, or they have a utility that handles the updates automatically. And the driver CDs rarely had Linux drivers anyway. And looking at the sheer SIZE of those driver downloads; once you download the drivers and utilities, you're a Gig or more in. Seriously? I think there's seriously way too much bloat there. That would have filled my first THREE hard drives.
Should indeed just be the drivers in the CD, not that other fluff really. And there are those who do use the discs still, so not "everyone" just casts them aside to get the latest whatever drivers there are, not all are able to go online right away after all & is a bit silly when someone says "everyone does this & that" which is not always the case. But anyway, though that disc was a few years old now, still strange to see something like that included on it.
MSI ships google drive, an old version of 7-zip and an (i assume) old version of chrome with its motherboard driver disc, it hasn't been updated since like 2009 lmao
Google Toolbar was also distributed as a Mozilla plug-in for Firefox from September 2005 to June 2011. On December 12, 2021, the software was no longer available for download, and the website now redirects to a support page.
Fun fact:My brother bought a pre-built pc back in 2015 with a gtx 950 from msi that has the exact same version of chrome and Google toolbar on the driver dvd
Kind of funny that an MSI motherboard that I I just got new last week from 2006 has the same exact software as the ones that asus is putting in their new releases
I thing there is something more puzzling and disturbing that them including Google Toolbar and that is that they are still using driver CDs in 2021 where pretty much every PC sold or built does not have a CD drive lol, in 2021 it should be a usb drive
Optical media is super cheap compared to USB drives and doesn't have (most of) the security issues associated with USB devices. Besides, anybody who would use the drivers from the package instead of downloading the latest online probably has an optical drive.
Hey Michael, not only ASUS, Gigabyte also ships "Google Toolbar" on every MoBo CD Drivers... I really don't get why... is a product that only works on IE (dead) and it's very annoying... for me they have a MSI ready to deploy with new driver pack and they don't really change anything else... the same with the Norton solution that came together with my MoBo CD Drivers... really don't get that... always ask myself: "WHYYYYY??????"
"For some reason" is the thing I would question about the video. As you concluded later in the video, clearly they are getting paid for it. Now, the question is, are they getting paid per installation? If so, putting all this unrelated monetization stuff on the driver CD/DVD that "no one should be using" is probably a borderline devious way of targeting the most "vulnerable" group of users.
aorus gigabyte cd for nvidia 2070 rtx, also include chrome & google toolbar. gigabyte cd (rev 1.1 & 1.2) for z390 gaming m motherboard also includes it.
I can't imagine gaming without google toolbar
yasssss
Same
Yeah man.. It makes me almost cry thinking of gaming without Google Toolbar.
Do not worry, we have Google Stadia.........
Nor without google chrome. What'd we do without it? Use Internet Explorer?
"Google Raytraced"
This needs to be happening in stadia
Imagine running a Google toolbar
raytraced 🤡🤡🤡🤡
This was posted by the Google search bar raytraced
Google chrome are gpu, ram power hungry, so...
Google Geolocalized
That's just the old Google logo
My guess is that they hadn't touched the driver installer program in years since nobody really uses the DVDs anymore, they just swap in a different Nvidia driver every year. They likely figured getting rid of the toolbar was more trouble than it was worth for a feature that few people use.
Sometimes is useful the DVD driver
@@ezequieldom641 It's value is appearant only when you cannot connect to internet and you don't have lan drivers
Ah you wish they fix the driver. I know someone who had an MSI GTX 1050 and installed the DVD drivers and... They were broken. I mean literally, the GPU in device manager was just NVIDIA something and 3D acceleration didn't exist, Aero didn't work.
@@jm036 Hi jm03
@@payraw6844 oh no the m*slim is here
Just when you thought that spyware-ridden toolbar died out in the 2000s…
It’s alive!
Yay more useless software I don’t need
👀
More like 2015
Google Toolbar isn't spyware though
@@NopWorks well, Google spies so much it may as well be spyware
Actually, the answer is much simpler: Asus did not want to change anything that was not necessary. All they did over the last decade was to replace the driver installer itself, leaving everything intact. I'm surprised that it did not ship with Acrobat Reader 5.0 and Macromedia Flash.
haha
Probly have a folder they swap the driver out with and ship to print. One guy probly handles it and doesnt touch anything as to not wanting to test a new config change.
average asus moment
it did ship with acrobat
No flash? :(
In just 2 quick updates, Chrome went from a version from 2013 to 2021. Just two quick updates, and no breakages? I gotta admit, that's impressive!
I don't think that this is really a contract thing, it's probably more like it's an automated process that was never changed because Asus probably put the employees that worked on CDs elsewhere and all was remaining was a outdated script to build the .iso for the drivers. There's no way Google would want a partner to keep pushing a defunct software towards customers, it just doesn't add up, this don't put them in a good spotlight.
i wa thinkingthe exact same thing...
it would make no sense to include both chrome and the toolbar though, unless it was google wanting to reach existing IE users when chrome was still young, the old partnership theory makes sense specially since it was around that time that pc building started to explode in popularity
same
But what about norton security then
@@aseldesu For sure there was a partnership done back then, the custom Toolbar installer says so, what I'm saying is that I doubt that Asus still bundle those software because of a ongoing partnership or request of Google. The fact that Asus still bundle it is more likely to be a vestigial of the process for making the CD.
I have a strix 2080ti myself and I can confirm that it is on my disk. I bought my 2080ti 2 years ago in August of 2019
I have revision V1461
@@DakotaRileyMedia pls make a iso for me
i used google toolbar all the time nearly a decade ago because i thought it was needed LOL
This now reminds me of "Splashtop Connect" that came with an old Gigabyte mainboard from 2008 or 2009, and I thought it was "Splashtop OS" when I tried setting up that PC for my aunt.
(Edit: "Splashtop Connect" was an Internet Explorer extension)
@@kbhasi my sony laptop had dual boot with splashtop os and windows 7, it only had a web browser and file manager and claimed to be an os to browse the internet and faster to boot which it is on hdd, it doesn't support modern websites anyway, to make youtube work some years ago i used it from bing and "video" section
@@namesurname4666
Yep, I had an LG netbook with that too.
@@kbhasi Ahh, Splashtop OS. The father of Chrome OS.
@@namesurname4666
As far as I know, the last Web browser for Splashtop OS 1.x was a rebranded and stripped-down version of Firefox 3.x (earlier versions used Firefox 2 instead), the "Chat" was just Pidgin, and the file manager was a brain-dead version of PCManFM. I think 2.x used Chrome instead.
Like seriously. You spent 2-4x MSRP for a GPU from scalpers, and you get ****ing Google Toolbar with the installation CD.
What a time to be alive
recovery discs years ago used to include like 20 bundled software with xp and vista, the more you pay your pc, the more software/bloatware you get, most of them are free trials and you get constant notifications from them, i remember arcsoft software, nero, mcafee, norton, aol free trial, hp wildtangent games
@@namesurname4666 Pretty sure McAfee is still included on some OEM systems, *which is kinda sad ngl*
@@ashii_ii yes can confirm for lenovo and hp sadly, and if you keep it you will receive system pop ups saying mcafee is expired and all kinds of messages to install mcafee browser extension and to pay the license, full screen warnings every time you boot your pc
@@namesurname4666 that’s strange since it was renamed from McAfee to Intel Security years ago
@@kaitlyn__Lno..?
I heard that if you use google toolbar for gaming, your performance will be improved by 200 fps 😳
My 2011 netbook turned into a 3000$ high-end gaming pc by installing google toolbar. No wonder why Google still host the downloads.
No, it’s bloatware.
@@OllyWindows2014 woosh
Ahaha, that's only if you HAVE a RTX!
*Crying intensifies*
GTX moment
Just get a prebuilt you can get an rtx easier that way
@@aruce9 yeah lol no for a shit price for a shit pc lmao
Nope, I have asus gt 1030 that came with google toolbar & google chrome on cd
They still pair toolbar with motherboards
I actually tried Windows 8 mode in Chrome few times back in around 2013~2014 for fun, was using Windows 8.1 at that time. It will enable ChromeOS like desktop with taskbar at the bottom, but you can't change the wallpapers. If anyone's wondering what it looks like.
I really wanted to know what it did and considered making a VM lol. But thanks to you I don't need to anymore. So Thanks a lot
@@eulehund99 Lol, glad this somewhat helped. No problem at all :)
Personally when I'm gaming I have a second monitor specifically for Google Toolbar, I can't live without it.
ASUS: "It's not a bug, it's a feature."
Thanks for making a vid about it MJD, out of boredom I checked my rog strix rx470 and rx570 boxes and they all include that toolbar cd, lol
My gigabyte motherboard from 2018 in its app center software when I check for updates in the not installed tab and if I scroll all the way down I see google toolbar AND NORTON INTERNET SECURITY
Me too! Ugh, I ended up removing the whole thing on mine because I was massively annoyed with it constantly asking me to update, and it would attempt to update the lighting effect controller software to an incompatible version!!!
Copied and pasted from my comment:
This reminds me of the annoying bloatware that Gigabyte's utilities try to install by default when it keeps prompting me to update drivers to versions not compatible with my mainboard and it also installs bloatware including Google Chrome (I'd rather use Pale Moon) and a few other things if I blindly click the "update" button, so much so that I removed the Gigabyte utilities! Ugh! No wonder why I prefer ASUS and/or MSI! You can go to Gigabyte's website and download drivers for the GA-Z270-UD3P!
Mine installed norton WITHOUT ANY REASON IT JUST SUDDENLY APPEARED
The signature is most likely updated every few months as a part of the automated build process. A reason for why may be to ensure that it will still be valid for the most amount of time possible (if those kinds of signatures expire idk). The copyright date is different because it can only be changed if the software changed. So that means it was last updated in 2018.
(if those kinds of signatures expire idk). usually the timestamp section is designed to say when it was signed, so that they dont expire..
nevermind that that makes the signature expirey totally pointless but whatever.
On the toolbar version tab there's a latim phrase: "De parvis grandis acervus erit", which translates to "from many small things comes a great thing"
I like Michaels regular uploads, they actually make my day. Thx lol.
this
I always knew they were aSUS
I love that they're including an eight year old browser with a new GPU L O L that's incredible
And the version of the toolbar they're including isn't even the latest!! That's a really forgotten part of ASUS' drivers
Even the toolbar STILL has a bookmark to the long-defunct Google+.
well yeah, they havent updated it since around 2015
When I built my PC I used the CD that came with the GPU/motherboard and have not upgraded any drivers since. It’s easy to reinstall since it’s on a physical media.
Now I will see the toolbar in 4k. How exciting
The Gigabyte Aorus "App Center" also asks for you to install Google Toolbar.
Gigabyte is owned by Asus.
Well, I know what my next graphics card will be!
Also, wow! I never expected you to go to 200K subscribers so fast! Been watching since 2018! I remember when you had 50K in 2020!
Here’s why: they used some proprietary installer to build the CD/DVD image, it only runs on Windows XP and uses DRM that doesn’t exist. They kept a machine around to build it, but they needed to warranty the motherboard and ASUS’s warranty team pretended it was physically damaged and would cost $300 to fix.
Nobody would approve it, because who cares?
To this day, the machine sits on someone’s desk, motherboard removed, waiting.
"What does Relaunch in Win 8 mode do"
*Michael clicks the button*
*I get an ad*
Funny coincidence
I just searched and there are some Reddit posts that mention ASRock and Gigabyte motherboards also bundling Google Toolbar with their update software
@ Michael MJD
There is no mystery in Google Toolbar. Bing, Yandex and Google have referral programs for every install. It's an easy way to integrate Search engine on Windows systems in every browser at once. Also Bars was first implementation of internet telemetry system.
Yandex was offering YandexBar openly till ~2012, it was basically up to 5USD per install, after that they changed policy. But didn't kill bar instantly cuz it was proved as great spyware, so they used it for "internet manual labor" - Yandex Toloka. If you will search any old Russian games torrents(Google also did that one too) - there will be silent install of YandexBar. And 5USD was one of largest bounty's.
And BingBar was renewed with Microsoft Rewards. And after 2013 - Amazon referral program started to be most profitable and basically killed entire thing.
Google Toolbar is a most tricky one of them all, they was offering reward for Google Chrome install, but not for Toolbar as i remember. It still a part of GoogleAdsense referral program that active till today. I have no idea how it's works, probably a 10% share from ads.
The most likely reason why this is still in there is as you say partially due to a deal with Google way back when.
However it has most likely expired now, but as the image maker have already been set up and made, and is possibly automated.
It keeps throwing in the Google Chrome and Toolbar from the days of old when they make the disc image, and since nobody wants to invest the time to change the tool and printing of the discs, it is just left to auto bundle them with their discs for the foreseeable future.
People aren't talking about it because nobody cares. The fact that this channel cares is what makes it awesome.
Back in the day every installer included Google Toolbar, while setting up a retro system recently I know that I ended up with an even older version of Google Toolbar installed. Guess Asus just forgot about it, more than Google anyway.
chrome and google toolbar has been on ASUS gpu driver DVD since at least 2015. They even ship a very outdated version of chrome. Those discs are left in the box and we are told to download directly from Nvidia
Also, the “launch chrome in windows 8 mode” was a thing for Windows 8 where chrome gets the whole screen with what looked like Chrome OS back in the day with its own windowing and web apps
Google Toolbar is required for 120+ FPS increase.
When I was a kid I installed so many toolbars half the screen was covered.
Oh me goodness! Google Toolbar on a CD driver!? Sheeeesh!!!!!!
Google Chrome on one of these disks is bad enough. It's no wonder people just skip the CD's nowadays
I recently got a new asus motherboard after so many years of using the CD drivers from previous motherboards and made the mistake of using one. Didn't have Google toolbar though.
Gigabyte also does this. Google Toolbar for IE is also included with my motherboard driver (Gigabyte Aurous B450 Pro wifi)
Now I'm curious to see if my Asus driver's CDs come with them, haven't even opened the box they come in since my last Core 2 Duo system.
I remember Gigabyte doing this with their Z170 boards, too. Google must subsidize the heck out of this stuff.
My Asus motherboard from 2019 also came with an install of Google Toolbar lmao
I just got my MSI B560 Torpedo motherboard and the manual mentions Chrome, Toolbar and Norton Internet Security as well. EDIT:The driver disc has an installer that mentions Google Toolbar, but it does not actually contain the software, I uploaded a video on it.
I still keep a Blu-Ray drive in my PC. And it occasionally comes in useful.
I just bought a TV show on DVD, because You can't buy all Seasons Digitally in Europe.
I ordered them from the US (Region 1) if only costs 21 Euro including shipping and in Europe (Region 2) 60 Euro. Disadvantage I can't play them on an European DVD Player (an X-Box one S in my Case) because of Region Lock but I can play them on a PC using VLC and the additional Library, as well as using Handbreak to converting them into m4v Files and Play them the X-Box.
TLDR: Disk Drives are useful and I would never pass on the option.
I got a disk like this with my ASUS Radeon RX 570 graphics card I got for my PC, had everything you showed in this video on it.
I love how Google toolbar's logo is changed to be like most modern Google app logos
You should mess around with the 8 mode Chrome on an actual 8 VM, it's basically a mini version of Chrome OS which is actually really cool
That Windows Photo Viewer swag
I have Windows Photo Viewer enabled on my Window 10 work PC as well 😛
...okay. I’m just not going to question this.
What's your pfp?
@@memesistolefromifunny9165 A very pretty flag
(bi)
I love your content, but that big music really made me think my tinnitus was acting up.
This reminds me of the annoying bloatware that Gigabyte's utilities try to install by default when it keeps prompting me to update drivers to versions not compatible with my mainboard and it also installs bloatware including Google Chrome (I'd rather use Pale Moon) and a few other things if I blindly click the "update" button, so much so that I removed the Gigabyte utilities! Ugh! No wonder why I prefer ASUS and/or MSI! You can go to Gigabyte's website and download drivers for the GA-Z270-UD3P!
(6:23) I can confirm, Zotac just puts a piece of paper in the box asking users to go directly to NVIDIA's support website to download the actual driver and then to Zotac's website to download Firestorm if the card has RGB lighting effects.
(9:35) Oh wow, the old ASUS rainbow graphic…
(9:58) That setup icon looks like one for Adobe Reader 9 to me!
Legit never use any of the driver cd's at all. Mostly due to the fact My pc isn't even compatible with one unless you use a external (Corner class pc case) and also the drivers will be several versions behind anyways so downloading them off the internet is a way better option.
I got curious and check my asus motherboard disc. It has the install files for the toolbar but no actual mention of it in the menu. Chrome also seems to be an old version.
Of course it's an old version. CDs don't download updates while in a drawer.
My guess is 2014 is the last time they cared about their driver cd, after that they probably just threw in an updated driver and called it a day.
Makes sense, I don't think I used the driver cd ever since I had decent internet, somewhere in the 0's
Money.
Money is the reason.
but how in the world does a toolbar this old make them any money? that's the confusing part, the money argument doesn't make sense
@@user-xu7rp3kw3z it’s called adware for a reason. The money coming from the said “ads” are going to ASUS in this case
@@Blood-PawWerewolf yes, but why would google pay for these ads?
@@ImmortalChanger No they don't. The google toolbar hasn't been updated in years, since google+ was a thing.
@@user-xu7rp3kw3z it was probably an old deal google did with Asus a long time ago, and it’s just still there.
My grandma still got installed Google toolbar on her HP Pavillion dv6 back from 2009, and it’s appearing only in installed apps in settings, and that’s it, not in the browser.
my motherboard drivers had it too and it's an asrock board, so asus is not the only one
ey b0ss
They do with their motherboards too,, very old version of Chrome and Toolbar came on the driver disc for my A320 motherboard
Imagine buying a new GPU and it installs Ask Toolbar and Conduit Search
Google Toolbar and Chrome arent as bad though
The only reason cds still exist with computer parts is so they can ship with a complete product, so people without internet can still use the product lol. The Google toolbar thing is probably just "we haven't decided to NOT do it, and some people may still find it useful in some situations."
6:20 but nobody goes to the manufacturers website u can just let nvidia install it.
At 16:17 when the version number is shown, in braces it says ASVA. I guess it means ASUS Value Add, so this is how it knows it is part of a bundle. The other version number shown at 16:25 has GGHQ in braces, which could mean Google Headquarters? As in, downloaded straight from Google.
Asus locked into offering google toolbar with gpus for the next 100 years 😂
Can confirm this, got an Asus Strix 2080 and there's also Google Toolbar on the driver CD
In France, its like 0:26 AM
Looks like that is a template asus cd, used to be bundled with GTX 600/700 series cards
This isn't just limited to ASUS driver CD's, I have two Gigabyte motherboards (one is an AMD 970 motherboard and the other is a b450 motherboard), and they both come with Google Chrome and the Google toolbar. I think this is a pretty common practice with driver CD's, since almost every product I've bought that had a driver CD has had Chrome and the Google Toolbar on the CD.
My gtx 1080 rog strix also came with that dvd and it includes google toolbar
16:22 I wonder if that really means "The small corn will" LMAO
Windows 8 Mode on chrome is basically chrome os
Right after you rebooted to windows 8 mode for chrome I got a ad I have been Rick rolled by the UA-cam algorithm
My msi motherboard which I bought new in 2020 and which came out late 2019 also came with google toolbar and a bunch of other bloat ware.
Asus probably has a build script they've been using for years where they just drop[ in the driver files for whatever that particular card series uses, partially so they don't have to reinvent it each time, and also to be sure any required legal notices and such get included. Getting the "Google Crap (TM)" removed would require getting the Legal department to approve it. And Legal doesn't approve anything.
But these days I don't need to download the drivers manually, because Fedora either has the drivers already in place, or they have a utility that handles the updates automatically. And the driver CDs rarely had Linux drivers anyway. And looking at the sheer SIZE of those driver downloads; once you download the drivers and utilities, you're a Gig or more in. Seriously? I think there's seriously way too much bloat there. That would have filled my first THREE hard drives.
Should indeed just be the drivers in the CD, not that other fluff really. And there are those who do use the discs still, so not "everyone" just casts them aside to get the latest whatever drivers there are, not all are able to go online right away after all & is a bit silly when someone says "everyone does this & that" which is not always the case. But anyway, though that disc was a few years old now, still strange to see something like that included on it.
Asus basically always had the Google toolbar on their discs 😂 it was already bundled with my 2012 amd motherboard. But to think they'd still do it 🤣
I got a Asus rog 2080 super and i did not get any driver disk, only the card that was showed in the 3070 video
i remember when GPU Cd's used to come with game Demos and X-fire
Can you do a iPhone OS 1.0 or iOS 6 retrospective?
"For those of you who don't know what google toolbar is"
Thanks. I know. We're old.
I was old when Google toolbar first came out.
Thanks. I know. I'm old.
Maybe its a "driver" for chrome to use the entire gpu usage for rendering 12 tabs
MSI ships google drive, an old version of 7-zip and an (i assume) old version of chrome with its motherboard driver disc, it hasn't been updated since like 2009 lmao
Why is Chrome included too? It's a shitty browser that eats both RAM and CPU. Firefox > all. Driver CDs should only contain drivers.
Google Toolbar was also distributed as a Mozilla plug-in for Firefox from September 2005 to June 2011. On December 12, 2021, the software was no longer available for download, and the website now redirects to a support page.
I refuse to believe the RTX series its 2y old already
Fun fact:My brother bought a pre-built pc back in 2015 with a gtx 950 from msi that has the exact same version of chrome and Google toolbar on the driver dvd
Kind of funny that an MSI motherboard that I I just got new last week from 2006 has the same exact software as the ones that asus is putting in their new releases
Why you got a MB from 06'?
3-4 years ago i got my asus gtx 1060 card and yeah, I was concerned when I saw google toolbar
The driver disc for my AMD Radeon™ RX 7600 Steel Legend 8GB OC does not include Google Toolbar unfortunately
I thing there is something more puzzling and disturbing that them including Google Toolbar and that is that they are still using driver CDs in 2021 where pretty much every PC sold or built does not have a CD drive lol, in 2021 it should be a usb drive
Optical media is super cheap compared to USB drives and doesn't have (most of) the security issues associated with USB devices. Besides, anybody who would use the drivers from the package instead of downloading the latest online probably has an optical drive.
This image viewer gives me nostalgic vibes
THAT WASN'T EVEN THE LATEST GRAPHICS DRIVER
Why would physical media have the latest driver?
I imagine they would have plenty previous stock left and they don't care about anything but bundling it with the card.
@@8strate8 Oh.... I didn't catch the "Physical Media" part.
I thought it was like downloaded from the ASUS website,
actually i recently bought an ASUS GPU (Radeon RX580) and it actually also came with google toolbar too, it also still comes with motherboards,,
Hey Michael, not only ASUS, Gigabyte also ships "Google Toolbar" on every MoBo CD Drivers... I really don't get why... is a product that only works on IE (dead) and it's very annoying... for me they have a MSI ready to deploy with new driver pack and they don't really change anything else... the same with the Norton solution that came together with my MoBo CD Drivers... really don't get that... always ask myself: "WHYYYYY??????"
Google toolbar and chrome was included in the drivers for a 2019 gigabyte mobo I bought
I just look through my Asus driver CD for my motherboard. It looks like they removed Google Toolbar. :(
"For some reason" is the thing I would question about the video.
As you concluded later in the video, clearly they are getting paid for it. Now, the question is, are they getting paid per installation? If so, putting all this unrelated monetization stuff on the driver CD/DVD that "no one should be using" is probably a borderline devious way of targeting the most "vulnerable" group of users.
It's comes with it because you need a amazing graphics card to run Google toolbar
aorus gigabyte cd for nvidia 2070 rtx, also include chrome & google toolbar.
gigabyte cd (rev 1.1 & 1.2) for z390 gaming m motherboard also includes it.
The Gigabyte AppCenter trys to install toolbar as well everytime I want update any driver