Corporate Surfing.

I just added a new subscription service to my the web site for my
online radio station which allows me to drill down and get more detail
that even corporate network admins. It seems that some people
accessing my web site do not listen when I suggest using Tor.
I see hits to my site from corporate networks all over the world.
Of course, my web site is not blacklisted. While the live 365 feed
comes up in the blacklists of filter vendors, such as WebSense or
Sufcontrol, my web site itself is currently not blacklisted
I am surprised that people surfing from work would not take the
precuation of hiding their tracks with anonymising services, such as
Tor, and leaving the tracks of thier surfing available for network
admins to know where they went. Among those I have seen include
someone from city hall in a small town in the Czech Republic who has
been to my site several times today already. Whoever it was, was
surfing my site through he workday there, until around 5PM local time
there, as there were numerous hits one IP at city hall at Usti Lad
Nabem in the Czech Republic. With StatCounter, I have more details on
this person's visit to my site than even his local network admin does.
I dont think his network admin has any record of what browser and
operating system was used, nor what screen resolution the page was
viewed it, or what links on the page were being viewed.
Statcounter gives more details than even their corporate admins
have. It tells me what browser and operating system they are using,
and even what screen resolution was being used. What I wonder is why
there is such an increase in the use of Firefox over Internet
Explorer. There are a lot of sites, especially a lot of online radio
sites, that will not work with Firefox. Why would they want to use a
browser that may be incompatable with a lot of sites in the Net? This
one has me perplexed.

Re: Corporate Surfing.

On 16-Apr-2007, chilly8@hotmail.com wrote:

> What I wonder is why
> there is such an increase in the use of Firefox over Internet
> Explorer.

Can you say 'less vulnerable'? Or at the very least 'less targeted'.

> There are a lot of sites, especially a lot of online radio
> sites, that will not work with Firefox. Why would they want to use a
> browser that may be incompatable with a lot of sites in the Net? This
> one has me perplexed.

So fix your site.
And quit spamming your crap posts. No one wants to hear it but you.

--
FUD 4 ever!

Re: Corporate Surfing.

chilly8@hotmail.com wrote:

> What I wonder is why there is such an increase in the use of Firefox

> over Internet Explorer.

Simple: Abusing MSIE as a webbrowser is an input control error by the user.
The more people fall into the obvious traps, the more the cease making the
same mistake again. There's also an increase of people telling them what
they're doing wrong.

> Why would they want to use a browser that may be incompatable with a lot
> of sites in the Net?

Ehm... don't you mean: Why would the want to use websites that may be
incompatible with a lot of browsers?

After all, what alternatives to Firefox/Mozilla exist? Opera? Konqueror?
Safari? Links2? w3m? I'd say Firefox is the most used webbrowser, it almost
fully adheres to the W3C specs - and if you can't get your website W3
conformant, then you have a serious problem.