[R-390] What is in the window?

[rbethman]

That is very interesting!

What it amounts to is giving the *best* rates to those that take the 
*most* risk!

Interesting philosophy.  Every single version of IE has been patched due 
to security flaws.

I guess I could get "cheaper" insurance if I were to go on-line to do 
so, but I prefer to have an office and a "live" person to deal with.  
They used to call them agents.

Bob - N0DGN

On 11/19/2010 3:57 PM, Tisha Hayes wrote:
> If you have been following the IT news over the past few weeks you may have
> seen the mention about Progressive Insurance giving different quotes to
> folks depending upon what browser they use. They explained that they were
> able to categorize some sort of "risk assessment" depending upon your
> browser choices. They gave the best prices to IE, moderate prices to Chrome
> and the highest prices to Firefox users.
>
> What struck me as funny was that by doing "nothing" and staying with the
> default windows browser you are considered less of an insurance risk than
> someone who would deign to go with Chrome or Firefox.
>
> It would be humorous if eBay was giving different levels of item
> descriptions depending upon browser choices.
>
> Being a long time Firefox user I thought of another rationale; many Firefox
> users also run things like AdAware or NoScript to block banner ads and
> popups. Maybe the marketeers are just a bit annoyed that we do not want to
> see flashy marquee popup windows every time we go to a web site.
>