FedEx will give you $5 to reinstall Flash

[iamdarkyoshi]

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The world’s most hated plugin is clinging on thanks to a generous $5 discount offer from FedEx, which apparently desperately needs customers to reenable Adobe Flash to be able to print things from its website.

 

“As a thank you for your patience and for being a valued FedEx Office customer, please use ‘FLA726’ at checkout to receive $5 off on orders over $30,” the offer reads.

 

I can't believe they are too lazy to pay developers to add printing support through something modern, and instead, offering users a discount. Hilarious.

 

Sauce: http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15052286/fedex-adobe-flash-five-dollar-discount-print-orders

[themctipers]

i tried to play club penguin yesterday, and chrome:plugins is broke for me.  

 

i cant even get a free $5. 

[Guest]

Wrong topic https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/69-hot-deals/

/s

[PCGuy_5960]

Wouldn't it be cheaper if they updated their website?

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

Wouldn't it be cheaper if they updated their website?

Thats what I thought. But shipping companies are a whole new flavor of weird

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

Wrong topic https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/69-hot-deals/

/s

 

[manikyath]

fedex developers are too lazy to replace a 20 year old server that HP themeslves has warned them about being on the edge of failing with no spare parts anywhere left.

 

the thing is mission critical as well, that's the best part of it.

[Guest Kloaked]

2 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I can't believe they are too lazy to pay developers to add printing support through something modern, and instead, offering users a discount. Hilarious.

Let me tell you how this went down based on my experience.

 

FedEx web dev: "We need to phase out Flash in favor of something else."

 

FedEx marketing/management/higher ups: "That costs too much money, and our older demographic are too familiar with Flash. They shouldn't have to download something else that they don't understand."

 

FedEx web dev: "....That's not how-"

 

FedEx marketing/management/higher ups: "Glad we could have this meeting!"

[captain cactus]

Install Flash, get 5$. Uninstall it, lose the horror that is Flash. Reinstall it, get 5$ etc etc etc.

 

How is this cheaper than hiring a couple of devs to make your site not shite.

[mikat]

This reminds me of this:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/firefox-gets-complaint-for-labeling-unencrypted-login-page-insecure/

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

 

Not Fedex but still one of the best commercial ever

 

[mikat]

1 minute ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Install Flash, get 5$. Uninstall it, lose the horror that is Flash. Reinstall it, get 5$ etc etc etc.

 

How is this cheaper than hiring a couple of devs to make your site not shite.

It's not about the developers, if it was, this problem wouldn't be here today, it's just something management doesn't wanna deal with.

[HarryNyquist]

1 minute ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

How is this cheaper than hiring a couple of devs to make your site not shite.

It's not, but companies don't hire smart BAs or managers anymore. They hire people who have a business degree, but have zero actual experience handling money or IT staff. They won't hire a new dev or use new tech because of the number on the purchase/hire, but fail to take into account the lost business from using something so obsolete, or the downtime for repairs when the thing inevitably breaks.

[Teddy07]

I have disabled flash and cant remember when a website last asked me to activate it.

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Not Fedex but still one of the best commercial ever

 

fun fact: fedex's building in belgium is a rotten dump with dirty mirrored windows, and DHL just freshly built a warehouse across the street from them, in bright DHL yellow, so now when you approach fedex it mirrors the DHL yellow warehouse, with its giant pink tower right in the middle

 

it's like DHL actually sent a guy with a paint roller up there to mock fedex.

[Guest]

Just now, manikyath said:

fun fact: fedex's building in belgium is a rotten dump with dirty mirrored windows, and DHL just freshly built a warehouse across the street from them, in bright DHL yellow, so now when you approach fedex it mirrors the DHL yellow warehouse, with its giant pink tower right in the middle

 

it's like DHL actually sent a guy with a paint roller up there to mock fedex.

In Canada DHL is pretty small office, there are few other FedEx offices too but the majority are well Canada Post

[mynameisjuan]

Glad to see they value security as much as a whopping $5

[HelplmChoking]

Good thing FedEx isn't in NZ...

[Maslofski]

1 hour ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Wouldn't it be cheaper if they updated their website?

that takes time, and until then they need to hand out rebates

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 hour ago, Maslofski said:

that takes time, and until then they need to hand out rebates

They had plenty of time.

[captain_to_fire]

That sucks. Fedex didn't got the memo that the entire tech industry is phasing out browser plugins in favor of HTML5 and CSS3. Are they too lazy to train their developers to learn modern web standards? Good luck with Flash exploits. 

[bcguru9384]

somebody send fedex the linustech squarespace link

fedex server problem solved ??

[captain_to_fire]

44 minutes ago, bcguru9384 said:

somebody send fedex the linustech squarespace link

fedex server problem solved ??

And Fedex will get 10% off. ?

 

 

[4960X]

I uninstalled flash like 2 years ago and never looked back.

[goodtofufriday]

Im a bit confused. I print from fedex all the time in chrome