Someone created a new website, the Explorer Destroyer in which they are agressively trying to get people to make the switch to Firefox in pretty unfair ways. They are also making money using Adsense to do this.
What they are doing is recruiting people to put up the adsense buttons to get firefox and everytime someone does they will pay you $1. The problem is they are also trying to get website owners to change their websites to block anyone using IE.
How it works is you get scripts from the website which will be a download link on your website to download Firefox, a splash page or the best one yet, completely blocking them from your site until they download and use Firefox. I might be a tad harsh but it almost seems like blackmail. You want to visit my website then do this first.
So if you find you can’t get into certain websites that may just be the problem. Millions of users prefer Firefox and there is nothing wrong with that. I do have a problem when you decide to push your likes and dislikes on me. I use IE because it’s what I’m used to. I have Firefox but just never completely took to it because some pages just do not show up well.
But now you are telling me that I can’t visit your site if I don’t use the browser you TELL me to? Then I guess I won’t visit your website. For any one thing, there are hundreds of websites. I don’t like being bullied online or off.
Also Adsense discourages it’s users from suggesting that people click links. So they can find their accounts banned for soliciting people to download Firefox via the Adsense link.