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Archive for December, 2012


Example of Yahoo’s inneficient advertising

December 6th, 2012 by Boanerges Aleman-Meza

If you use mail.yahoo.com, you’ll see ads. The advertisement of Mozilla Firefox takes you to download version 17 of Firefox. However, I am opening the website with exactly that version of Firefox. Hence, such ad is useless. Yahoo’s web server should detect that I already have that version of Firefox. It can even be done in Javascript. Advertising Firefox 17 to users using Firefox 17 is simply inefficient.