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Citibank infuriating its customers with Linux-hostile site

theinquirer.net — So you use that web browser to fill the application for a credit card at Citibank, and finally receive it. But when you start using that credit card and want to check you card usage on-line, the system won't work when accessed with Linux. That's exactly what has got Linux users furious at the banking giant.

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  • melak, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1quote - "using a Firefox is as easy as a walk in the park, but then checking his card activity on CitiCards.com using the open sauce browser was, well, as hard as a stone."

    pretty bad article when it's not just you dropped the r from source, but swap in an a for a to make browser that sounds like it should be on top of pasta or something.
  • adila01, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1For those interested in an alternative to Citibank, Wachovia works great under Linux. That bank hasn't given me any trouble at all in terms of page rendering within Ubuntu.
  • dooooo, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1When I came across the title , I thought It was another issue caused by a stupid alteration of user-agent strings (Made by a distribution developer for example) .
    This is definitely not the case . I have a Mac-Safari user-agent string overriding the default one ( I'm writing this from a Debian machine) .

    I visited 'citicards.com' from Firefox (Iceweasel in Debian systems) and the site worked just fine .

    Then I changed the user-agent string to a Linux one and refreshed the page , I noticed immediately a couple of 'flashes' blocked by the amazing addon 'FlashBlock'
    and the rest of the site just worked fine again .

    Then I enabled the suspected ad and It's content showed up without any problem but looking at the status bar I knew the flash didn't want to finish loading .

    Finally and that's the important part : I disabled 'FlashBlock' and restarted the browser . Now the page is blank and again the flash never finished loading .

    To take the test one step further, I tried 'Opera' and the content of the page disappeared when the flash ad started loading (The flashes and the footer of the page were still apparent though) .

    To summer up : EITHER CitiBank can't hire professional web designers , a problem that caused malfunctioning flash ads to turn the page blank and for some reason those ads only show up in browsers with Linux user-agent strings , OR they are intentionally blocking Linux users from using their services .
  • DestroyFascism, on 09/02/2008, -1/+2Fascist rockerfella stikes again...

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