Stephen Thorne ([info]jerub) wrote,
2004-04-30 10:41:00

blocking IE

I should really start compiling statistics, because I'm finding this extremely amusing.

Most of you know, I block IE on my personal webserver.

I wrote an RSS aggregator, and I've linked it from my front page. This is a world accessable page that Yahoo! and Google have indexed. My aggregator points to many places, but one of them is a slashdot digest site called AlterSlash.

Alterslash shows some of the highly moderated comments and the top stories from slashdot, and because of that, I've got people hitting my website with referals from things like http://www.google.com/search?q=dedrms%2Eexe - because google saw that I had the string "dedrms.exe" on my page - because alterslash had it - because slashdot mentioned it. If you click the link, I'm the third of 3 hits found.

All these users have been blocked, and some have resorted to using the google cache, just to read my humble site. Not just searches for dedrms.exe, but many other stories that have been in media.

When I instituted my anti-MSIE policy I didn't realise how many people it would affect. Now I know that I've already inconvienced hundreds of IE users .

I'm so happy I could cry.

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[info]danshep

April 29 2004, 22:39:08 UTC 8 years ago

If your aim is to edumacate, have you considered changing the page from just "No" to "Your browser sucks. If you wish to view my site, stop using IE and get a real browser".

As it stands, it looks like it's just some form domain-squatting from IE.

[info]jerub

April 29 2004, 23:12:01 UTC 8 years ago

I don't wish to educate, I just wish to give IE users a web experience they find immensely dis-satisfying.

If I attempt to educate, I end up with victims suffering from Stockholm Syndrome telling me that "IE does everything better" and "IE does everything I need".

So I refuse to educate, I simply degrade their web experience.

[info]danshep

April 29 2004, 23:16:23 UTC 8 years ago

Fair enough - I wasn't 100% on your intention from your other posts.

Fight on then.

[info]jerub

April 29 2004, 23:37:30 UTC 8 years ago

who ARE you anyway? how did you find my journal?

[info]danshep

April 29 2004, 23:39:41 UTC 8 years ago

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/quicklinks/

Anonymous

April 30 2004, 10:51:16 UTC 8 years ago

Best... exchange... evar. I think I just laughed up my toenails.

(likewise on the link path to here, by the way)

- Ben (http://cpe000103c34069-cm014300001653.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com/weblogs/ben/)

Anonymous

April 30 2004, 01:32:41 UTC 8 years ago

steve, you are a fag.

[info]jerub

April 30 2004, 02:35:09 UTC 8 years ago

TPG proxy it seems.

Which means you're either [info]justdigi, or someone equally gay.

And digi is pretty damn gay.

[info]soulwatcher

April 30 2004, 05:57:24 UTC 8 years ago

Well I can't work out why I'm blocked too when I don't use IE but Mozilla instead. So no peeking at webcam to see what Steve is up to...

[info]jerub

April 30 2004, 15:03:48 UTC 8 years ago

right-click->view-source to see the user-agent the site sees you as.

you've tried reloading of course?

[info]jellysnakes

April 30 2004, 07:47:32 UTC 8 years ago

ahh.. like many geeks, you're so cute when you're evil :P
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