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I'm sick of getting chrome "recommended" to me by sites
Even the bank, for crying out loud!
Even my bank site puts up a banner (about the same size as the #$%&*@^ ribbon), demanding that I "upgrade" from one of the most advanced browsers in the world to the cr@ppy spyware called chrome.
Who's paying them for this? Google won't be.
Or is it just an ignorant prig of a banking-world web developer? "I use chrome, therefore it's the best, therefore everyone should use it!"
It's like the free advertising that adobe gets everywhere (even on the UK government site). No I don't "need" adobe acrobat to read your files!
There are dozens of pdf readers better than acrobat (all of 'em, IMO), and there are dozens of browsers better than chrome (just about all of 'em, IMO), so why are so many idiots so caught up in giving them free advertising?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: one of the most advanced browsers in the world
Which is?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A secret, for us security-paranoid types.
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Ah.
IE 6 then... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Lynx may be !!! 
Thanks,
Milind
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Pfft! IE6 was cr@p!
The best IE by far was IE4. Far superior to Edge, Chrome, and that Chinese Nutscrape knock-off Red Panda.
What I find amusing is that Nutscrape and Red Panda were the noisy boys who caused all the trouble and made all the fuss that resulted in the "browser wars", but Nutscrape died, and Red Panda is going the same way.
The come along, cause trouble, then bugger off to cause trouble elsewhere? They're the trolls of the browser world.
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I've used Chrome for a good few years now and have yet to find a better browser. How about letting us into the secret of which one you think is so superior?
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"Better" depends on your needs.
If you want cutting edge, go for Opera (why wait for chrome to copy their ideas?)
If you want fast, go for OB1.
If you want to interact between your different machines, go for Maxthon.
If you only want to tweet and use FB, get off the ****ing Internet.
Etc.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: one of the most advanced browsers in the world
So which one is it?
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Hey, I don't tell people what tools I use, where there's security involved.
It's like when people here ask what antivirus people use. That always looks to me like market research by hackers.
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What does this have to do with security? You stated that you were being hassled to switch to Chrome from a browser that you described as "one of the most advanced browsers in the world". So why do you refuse to tell us which one it is?
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: So why do you refuse to tell us which one it is?
So he doesn't need to justify the claim when we all laugh like drains, obviously!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Bloody good marketing by someone, probably the same guy who got Intel Inside stickers on a huge range of boxes.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That's a real thing, what you're saying.
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May be these chorome ads are part of google ads. As chrome is google product and most use google as search engine.
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Sandesh M Patil wrote: most use google as search engine
Ah, but I don't, any more. Not for several months -- specifically because I got fed up of all the paid results and the nagging.
("Hey, you have to check out revision 2016.7255964628455 of our terms and conditions before continuing, then give us your phone number, credit card details, and mother's maiden name, so you can log in to google search safely and search the Internet! You must do this today!")
It's actual web-sites doing it. It's like the Nutscrape days, all over again ("You need Nutscrape 3.5 to view his site properly")
If a "normal" site pulls cr@p like that, I'll just piss of and view a different site (QED I don't use google search), but changing banks is a PITA.
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Message Closed
modified 26-Apr-16 8:08am.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Checked the site and there was a link to claim it - expiring 7th April (this was at the beginning of March).
But did it say 2016?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Amusingly, I did actually check at the time! Yes 2016.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Amusingly, I did actually check at the time! Yes 2016.
Thought it might be a bit of creative selling using out of date offers.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I _think_ it might be them reducing the change of having to pay out by removing the claim from their site after the las date you can *buy* the product, rather the last date you can *claim*
Hoping I suppose that if they make it hard enough people will just give up.
Of course, they will by now have spent more than $100 in staff costs just dealing with me!
And I will never buy an HP product again. Personally or for my company.
I'd sell any HP shares if I were you 
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But did they specify 2016 in the Gregorian calendar? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It's because they care.
Just don't ask about what.
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