What is a web browser dinosaur?

A web browser dinosaur is a web browser that has outlived it’s time. It should be extinct by now, but for some reason it just won’t go away.

We get quite a few visitors here at Power Pix, and we are still surprised by how many people access our website with ancient web browsers. If you really love something, you have to be strong enough to let it go.. now may be the time.

Why do people still use them?

While we have not performed a formal survey on this topic .. (this might be a good idea), there may be a couple of good reasons why people still cling to their ancient web browsers.

• Maybe they have an old operating system that came with an outdated web browser installed by default.
• Maybe they don’t know how to upgrade their web browser.
• Maybe they are not aware that there are other web browser choices.
• Maybe they are just plain “used to it” and don’t want to change.

These could all be legitimate reasons for keeping the dinosaur alive.. but at what cost?

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If you are getting a ton of useless traffic from a domain (or domains) and you want to block them.. what would you do? If you are using a Linux based server, you can accomplish this using .htaccess.

“Wait.. did you say block traffic.. that sounds crazy right?” Not necessarily.

• There is good traffic (potential customers, people who are interested in reading your content..)
• There is bad traffic (comment spammers, image hot linking, spoofed links on other sites linking to yours..)

To block a certain domain or domains from accessing your website, you can edit your .htaccess file with the following:

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