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FedEx will pay customers to turn Adobe Flash back on if it notices Chrome or Safari users that have it disabled:
FedEx will give customers that use the Chrome 56 and Safari 10 browsers or newer a $5 discount once they enable the Flash plugin. The offer comes after both Chrome and Safari have started blocking Flash content by default in the past few months.
[...] Despite all of [the] warnings, FedEx has remained one of the largest companies that still supports Flash content on its website. This seems to be causing some issues for their customers, who now need to enable Flash in Chrome and Safari. As you may imagine, chances are that many FedEx customers aren't very happy that they have to follow a list of relatively technical instructions to enable Flash again in their browsers. The more tech savvy ones may even dislike the fact that FedEx is forcing them to use Flash again, and potentially expose them to security risks, just when they thought they could have a Flash-free web experience.
To alleviate this problem, FedEx has come up with a rather interesting idea--it will offer its customers a $5 discount for orders over $30 if the site notices that they don't have Flash enabled. All you have to do to get that $5 discount is--you guessed it--enable Flash in your browser. Easy! In its instructions, the company is asking its customers to switch Flash to the "Always run" option, in order to enable it in their browsers. However, Chrome and Safari users should also be able to allow the Flash plugin to "Run once" on the FedEx website. This should allow them to complete the purchase, while at the same time limiting their exposure to Flash exploits.
How about a class action lawsuit for everyone who keeps Flash running after re-enabling it?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27 2017, @03:27AM (2 children)
Did they outsource whoever coded the backend, replacement of frontend is shit and FedEx is now unable to get a new full system fast enough get out of the mess?
(Score: 1) by anubi on Monday March 27 2017, @07:20AM (1 child)
Knowing how some businesses operate... likely got the lowest bidder contract, got it out fast, taught the company man how to get at the data files it created, and the relationship with the software guy terminated.
Now, nobody knows how it worked.
And the software guy starved. Doing something else now.
The pleasures of proprietary software, whether it be owned by a corporation or an individual.
Kinda like having a professional take your wedding photos instead of having a friend do it. You get one who holds you hostage over copyright and won't hand over the image files, well a pox on you for involving proprietary systems in your affairs.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27 2017, @05:05PM
These big companies are the stupidest of fucks. They think they can stay in the 90's forever with their scum soaked websites. They hire the wrong firms(whatever windows using, idiotic slaveware peddling whores the other big companies hired) , pay them too much, don't get source code and then want to keep it the same for 20 fucking years because they are too ignorant and lazy to do anything about it. There are firms who would build a modern application for a very reasonable price and release the source to them but they are too stupid to look around and find smaller co's. Large corps are reservoirs of wasted human potential just like governments.