During the last 'The Tek', (At least I think it was in the latest Tek or INBOX.EXE. I'm too lazy to check.) Logan was ranting on Internet Explorer being a pretty bad browser. While I agree it is really lacking in the many other features that other browsers have, I ran across an article that surprised me when I saw it on pcmag. (Link here.) It's about IE having more protection against things like targeted advertisements, geo location, and all that juicy controversial mumbo-jumbo. "I just found it a bit ironic and a good read to share. That's all.
To be honest, Chrome is still much more bare bones than IE, and the features that Chrome lacks out of the box is covered by extensions.
IF i cared i might look up NSS Labs . But i dont .
a little bit off on a tangent but.. hopefully people will forgive me as it is relevant.
I had been reading up about IE having an ad blocker built in 'out of the box' and as a person who works for a publishing company trying to transition from print to web this scares the crap out of me.
Content on the internet isnt free and needs to be monetized in some manner, more and more newspapers / magazines are dissapearing behind a paywall as a) print sales is declining drastically b) online display revenues are shockingly low and doesnt cover the costs.
Most publishers look at a+b and are under the mistaken impression that their own websites which publish their print content 'for free' (or as near as to free given that the revenues arent there) are the main contributor to their print sales declining. They run some risk / reward numbers based on this conclusion and inevitably end up with the paywall solution.. which in turn doesnt do what they wanted as.
a) print figures still decline as audiences switch to consuming their media through different devices
b) they cut out all online display revenues completely as you cannot sell a product with no audience.
c) your audience just goes elsewhere, where they can get it for free.
Bottom line, paywall = one step from deaths door as in putting one up you have just effectively written off 'digital' and are now just trying to protect your core print asset from declining further, which is like trying to stop the tide.
More and more i look at microsofts decision to include an ad blocker by default and I cannot help but think that this is a parting shot at google (who are basically 'the ad company').