Posts filed under 'Not seeing me again'
For the first time I wanted to use the codes provided by the 0,5l small coke bottles inside the lock. I wrote down the code, went to mycokemusic.at, clicked on Download Shop and was prompted with this nice message:
Leider scheinen dir ein paar Komponenten zu fehlen, um die Seite www.mycokemusic.at aufrufen zu können. Dafür benötigst du:
• Einen PC mit einem Microsoft Windows Betriebssystem; Windows 98, ME, 2000 oder XP
• Internet Explorer (Version 6.0 oder höher)
• Windows Media Player (Version 7.0 or höher)
• Flash Plug In (Version 5 or höher)
Um herauszufinden ob du alle benötigten Komponenten hast, damit du Ausschnitte, Streams anhören und Downloaden kannst: hier klicken.
Ergänzend benötigst du noch:
• Eine Soundkarte
• Lautsprecher oder Köpfhörer die an deinen PC angeschlossen sind
ACHTUNG: Diese Seite ist nicht mit Macs kompatibel. Derzeit gibt es leider keinen Windows Media Player für MAC, der mit dem Microsoft Digital Rights Management (DRM) Version 7 arbeitet. Version 7 ist ein Standardformat, auf den sich die meisten Musikfirmen geeinigt haben
Oh, and did I mention that it wanted to install DRM Store DLL, whatever this is? What the heck is going wrong here. I’m not interested in DRM, I just want to use my pin to download what I bought.
This was the last time I was there.
February 1st, 2006
Another site requiring cookies! Let me clarify: I don’t want to buy anything, I only want to view the content. And that for I’ve to accept cookies? Why? There only statement on the page is:
Bitte konfigurieren Sie Ihren Browser so, dass Sitzungscookies (session cookies) zugelassen werden.
No mentioning why their super-content needs this.
So, no reason to ever visit this page again.
November 3rd, 2005
Raise your voice! Don’t let your computers get DRM infected without even telling you.
Node idea what I’m talking about?
Readthis and this and this and this and this and this and ….
Quintessence: you insert a music CD in your computer you get a free/automatic/not-asked-for installation of a Root-Kit. A basic roundup of what a root-kit does is: it uses technologies to hide things on your computer from you. Or even allow remote access.
To quote from Mark’s Internet Sysblog:
Not only had Sony put software on my system that uses techniques commonly used by malware to mask its presence, the software is poorly written and provides no means for uninstall. Worse, most users that stumble across the cloaked files with a RKR scan will cripple their computer if they attempt the obvious step of deleting the cloaked files.
fsck!
Update 3. Nov. ’05
As reported by the german news Golem, there’s an uninstaller available.
November 2nd, 2005
Since a view days, orf.at (orf being the public government tv broadcaster in austria) started showing half screen ads. Not just the usual fullbanners. No. Not skyscrapers. No.
The (flash) banner was always as big as the viewport height (!). And on a reasonable big screen (1400px wide) and the content page of orf.at being only as wide as a 800px there is plenty of room for this .. uhm … banner-in-your-face.
Banners? Yes! Half-viewport-sized-i-take-over-your-screen-banner on orf.at? No!
Get Adblock today and ban http://orf.at/sidebar/sidebar.html yesterday.
Oh, and btw: shouldn’t it be sidebar? :-)
Update 24th Nov. 06: They changed it to be called sidebar instead of sitebar :-)
October 22nd, 2005
Why does Yahoo! Groups require cookies to be activated, even if I only want to “view” a message? Certainly unacceptable and thus a “not seeing me again” site!
January 11th, 2005
It seems internet companies have no scruples and enough market share to to put off potential customers, as it happend to the libro.at relaunch, done by diamond dogs.
We web developers know, Mac IE is pure pain in the ass for advanced CSS techniques, however it’s a whole different story to have a page not rendered exactly like and intended compared to not rendered at all. Interesting also the wording: “… not optimized for …” Who needs this optimization anyway? Just display the page, not need for whatsoever optimization.
What do we learn? The bigger the companies, the better they must know. Or the less the care. Judge yourself.
December 14th, 2004
Disabling cookies is about paranoia? No, it’s about my privacy, goddamn! alias.com thinks otherwise:
Btw, no, they didn’t do this check only on the first page but on every page. Question for the brains: why? I couldn’t find any problems except the annoying javascript message every time.
November 17th, 2004