It isn't fraud, to refund something that was discounted due to a bulk buy for the individual full price is closer to fraud. If you go to a supermarket and get 3 loaves of bread for the price of 2, you wouldn't expect to be able to refund them individually and make 50% extra. Equally, you can't require the supermarket to sell you a single loaf of bread for two-thirds the standard price because they have that offer. This is no different.
This seems to me like another bonus for Google and Microsoft in tracking users browsing habits. If every time someone visit a site using FF2.0 or IE7 it 'phones home' to find out of the page is a phishing site or not, won't these companies be able to build a more concise and accurate profile of web users?
Just a thought...
The worry is they can legislate later to make them compulsory... and at an estimated cost of £30 a time, they're not exactly going to be cheap. Buy one with your passport and you're looking at £93, thats 2 full days work for me!
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It isn't fraud, to refund something that was discounted due to a bulk buy for the individual full price is closer to fraud. If you go to a supermarket and get 3 loaves of bread for the price of 2, you wouldn't expect to be able to refund them individually and make 50% extra. Equally, you can't require the supermarket to sell you a single loaf of bread for two-thirds the standard price because they have that offer. This is no different.
Firefox at least sends the address of the page you're trying to connect to to Google to check it, as evidenced here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-prot ection/, I'm not sure about IE7.
This seems to me like another bonus for Google and Microsoft in tracking users browsing habits. If every time someone visit a site using FF2.0 or IE7 it 'phones home' to find out of the page is a phishing site or not, won't these companies be able to build a more concise and accurate profile of web users? Just a thought...
The worry is they can legislate later to make them compulsory... and at an estimated cost of £30 a time, they're not exactly going to be cheap. Buy one with your passport and you're looking at £93, thats 2 full days work for me!