{"id":480,"date":"2008-10-12T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T03:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2008-10-12T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T03:16:34","slug":"couponscom-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/couponscom-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Coupons.com Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/computers\/screenshots\/coupons_com_diabetic_coupons.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/77334-2\/coupons_com_diabetic_coupons.png\" height=420 width=640 border=0 alt=\"Coupons.com requires you to install some special software for diabetic coupon printing, and it specifically does not work in VMs.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My grandma needed some coupons printed which are related to an arthritis drug called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zostrix.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zostrix<\/a> (note the <tt>rel=\"nofollow\"<\/tt>) but was having some problems doing so. My mom also had such problems, so I decided to give it a go using my <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/07\/xerox-phaser-6130n\/\">shiny new printer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the coupons for this drug are printed via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coupons.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coupons.com<\/a>, but when I went to use their service I was informed that it didn&#8217;t support my browser (FF3 on a Mac). Switching over to a VM running IE7 under XP I found that the site requires one to install some sort of silly coupon printing software in order to do the printing. Since I was using a VM I took a snapshot then attempted to install the software, at which point I received the above error.<\/p>\n<p>The damned software refuses to install in a VM.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I&#8217;m just not going to print the coupons&#8230; I don&#8217;t want to cruft up my normal or work machines (the only interactive non-VMs I have) with such crap, so there&#8217;s not much more I can do. Digging around a bit more on it, I found this writeup called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benedelman.org\/news\/082807-1.html\">A Closer Look at Coupons.com<\/a> which details quite a number of questionable things done by this software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandma needed some coupons printed which are related to an arthritis drug called Zostrix (note the rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221;) but was having some problems doing so.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/couponscom-sucks\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coupons.com Sucks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}