Skype has become too active to ask to be updated, how to calm down?

Question

Skype

Skype 7.41
The last days after waking up from hibernation or sleep, Skype began to spontaneously unfold and poke me with a full-screen message asking me to update, is there a way to turn off this behavior? Auto-update is naturally disabled.
Google gave me only https://answers.microsoft.com/ru-ru/skype/forum/sk...
Horror, I don’t want to upgrade to a new Skype on the electron, because the last time I tried it, the correspondence history from the classic Skype was not picked up. Yes, and performance is sad - even the web version is better in all respects.

Answer 1

It seems that in September the seventh version will stop working altogether due to changes in the protocol.
Therefore, it is trying to update more actively.