[lug] Intuit's Shenanigans

[Hugh Brown]

I was using Konqueror the other day and saw something that made me
chuckle.  There is a button that allows you to set your browser client
type to any of a list of about 10-20 different browsers.

I had to view an extra toolbar to find it, but it struck my funny bone.

Hugh

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 15:04, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> If any of you have tried to use Intuit's "web" applications, you may
> have found that they block all but their "approved" browsers, including
> IE and Netscape 4.x for Windows and Mac.
> 
> I just sent them an admittedly taunting note:
> 
> "I thought you would be interested to know about my business that you
> have lost this tax season.
> 
> I have always been highly impressed with your products, in general.  I
> had hoped to use your TurboTax web application to prepare my personal
> taxes for 2001.
> 
> Unfortunately, you have unnecessarily blocked all but a select few
> platform/browser combinations.  Since my Linux machine running Galeon
> (which is based on Mozilla, as is Netscape 6) is one of those blocked, I
> cannot use your services.
> 
> I'm sure TaxAct (http://www.taxact.com/) would like to thank you for
> this policy."
> 
> You can do the same...
> https://orderupdate.intuit.com/corporate.asp
> 
> They also have an application that they call 'QuickBooks for the Web',
> which the last time I checked was more appropriately named 'QuickBooks
> for IE', since the *only* client it allowed is IE for Windows.
> 
> Dhruva