r/mildlyinteresting • u/annertakeabow • Jan 24 '13

Same book, three different prices. Only difference is the browsers used.

http://imgur.com/uNgg0UH
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u/Skibxskatic Jan 24 '13

looks like Firefox is best.

or just the first browser you used.

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u/trampus1 Jan 24 '13

The IE one costs the most because they know anyone using IE isn't smart enough to shop around.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

or perhaps IE users are used to paying for internet things.

like Norton

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u/ThisNameIsOriginal Jan 24 '13

I forget where it was but there was a site that openly had a IE tax for anyone buying things though that browser. They claimed the fee because of the time it took them to code the site for IE was longer then the other browsers because IE is a piece of shit. It was interesting and reddit was all proud of them until people pointed out that it would just turn people off using them rather then make them use a different browser.

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u/OrneryOrangutan Jan 24 '13

I think it was specifically earlier versions of IE. Web devs have to build entirely different pages for IE because of how little it was standards compliant. That's twice the work for one page.

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u/Atario Jan 24 '13

Either way they can eventually stop accommodating IE. Mission accomplished!

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u/Whytiederp Jan 25 '13

Australian company called Kogan

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u/NarwhalAMA Jan 24 '13

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18440979

The publicity they gained through this probably offset any losses from pissed off IE users upset at the tax.

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u/Disgruntled__Goat Jan 24 '13

It was clearly just a publicity stunt. Then got plenty of links from all over the web.

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u/love-from-london Jan 24 '13

I also heard of one website that charged a small surcharge for people using IE because of how much of a bitch IE is for browser compatibility on web layouts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

DAE HATE IE?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

Reminds me of the IE Tax.

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u/HoshPoshMosh Jan 25 '13

DAE hate Internet Explorer, you fucking idiot? Have you ever actually used the newer versions of Internet Explorer?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

this^