Explorer Destroyer - A silly idea
by Volker Weber
Since Simon just mentioned it , I think Explorer Destroyer (Switch to Firefox, Make money from Adsense Referral) is a pretty silly idea. What do you gain by alienating your visitors? $1 per switcher? There must be better ways to make money. I know that Simon does not think about the money, but I don't think it works if you tell your visitors they are being inconvenienced since they are using "the wrong browser". It certainly does not work for me.
I had a gentle reminder in the sidebar until I found it too annoying. This is the top of the statistic I am seeing right now:
So I like to think that I have smart readers. :-)
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So I like to think that I have smart readers
Let's not make rash judgements. We haven't seen your stats for operating systems yet. ;-)
I see the opposite in my statistics, so I clearly don't have smart readers...
I'm giving it a try for a while to see what the reaction is. I have the script set to simply display a yellow bar at the top of the home page (not on other pages) for IE users, rather than the more extreme options the Explorer Destroyer site suggests (which I do think are daft). I regard this as targetted advertising; I'll publish results in a month or so.
> So I like to think that I have smart readers. :-)
Companies or other service providers who think they really can change their customers/users are overestimating their power in 98% of the cases (don't pin me down on the number, that's an estimate... but I would take almost any bet that the real number is somewhat like that). Few products really changed the way people behave and even fewer did in a time frame short enough for the inventor to make real profit.
21.9% IE? That sounds almost like rock bottom as there are many users who can't chose their browser, like in a many corporate environments.
You seem to have converted all the convertables ;-)
Good job! ;-)
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