[R-390] What is in the window?

[Les Locklear]

I gave up on Windoze Internet Exploder years ago. I run Firefox and have 
absolutely no problems on XP. The usual disclaimers apply........

Les Locklear
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tisha Hayes
  To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
  Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 2:57 PM
  Subject: [R-390] What is in the window?


  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.

  -- 
  Tisha Hayes/ AA4HA
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