Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by npsimons on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:52PM
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To be perfectly honest, I'm sick of Chrome being pushed down my throat at every turn (including in emacs-w3m; if I'm using emacs-w3m, I'm pretty damn sure I know what Chrome is and I consciously choose not to use it). Yes, I know it's their baby, yes I know it's their SE; but this headline brought a wry smile to my face. Turnabout is fair play :P
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by mynameisvlad on Friday December 12, 2014 @08:20PM
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I mean, they probably just detect if your user agent is not Chrome. It'd be silly to complicate it further by checking if it's not some relatively obscure thing that's super techy just for the benefit of excluding people that will for sure not use Chrome.
Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by codemac on Saturday December 13, 2014 @04:09AM
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It's literally their job to run relevant advertising.. it's a testament to Google's advertising that we expect better of them.
Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by netcan on Saturday December 13, 2014 @10:33AM
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That's not what literally means anymore
Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by warfangle on Saturday December 13, 2014 @11:34AM
(#8745502)
If you want to be pedantic, get it right ;)
It means both.
Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by netcan on Saturday December 13, 2014 @12:46PM
(#8745731)
I was being silly, technically.
Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by frozenport on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:09PM
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And i'm sick of bad search results! Frankly, I was a lot more annoyed using Yahoo compared to seeing a Chrome advertizement.