New Qantas Toolbar - Earn Bonus Points just for searching

[Pinkmoose]

Hi Everyone,
Just got this from Qantas:

www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/partners/toolbar#

It seems pretty straight forward and you can earn 150 points per month just by searching. I know the the QFF scheme is becoming less of a FF scheme and more diluted, but it might help some people earn a few extra points.
Unfortunately incompatible with Macs.

 

[moa999]

Just read the FAQs and disclosures:

Qantas will collect personal information including search and web browsing activity collected through your use of the Toolbar and Yahoo!7 search engine and may use it for marketing purposes in accordance with the Toolbar Collection Statement and Toolbar Terms and Conditions.

 

[blackcat20]

200 bonus points to download and use before June 23. Even if you just deleted it after that....

 

[moa999]

Installed on Firefox.. Seems to pull something from an amazonaws domain...
Doesn't seem to slow things down..

But it means using Yahoo7 not Firefox.

 

[Pinkmoose]

Just read the FAQs and disclosures:

You think that google and other search engines do not already do that?
Might as well get some points along the way.

 

[moa999]

With cache clearing/ private mode etc... you can be anonymous on google.
Even if being tracked they still only know you as an id...

Here you are logging into your Qantas account... They know your name, address etcc.... and what you search for.

Very different.

Anyhow just earned a few points when searching for info about the Velocity Program ---

 

[harvyk]

You think that google and other search engines do not already do that?
Might as well get some points along the way.

Actually the search engines would have a very difficult time matching you personally with your searches unless you actively log in. They at best could built a profile of your searches and take a guess at what you like, but unless you log in that's the best they can do. Plus unless the site send information back to google (eg through google analytic's) once you leave google and move onto the site, that's googles knowledge of you ended.

With this Qantas would know your name, address, phone number, and what sort of things you like both good and bad. It would be like inviting red roo into your home and telling them that they are free to riffle through your documents, your dvd collection and your wardrobe. (No offence red roo)

 

[oz_mark]

Would not be the first toolbar I've installed, taken the points, then removed....

 

[Fruitcake]

Actually the search engines would have a very difficult time matching you personally with your searches unless you actively log in.

This might be relevant to your interests:
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 - NYTimes.com

AOL search data leak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Essentially, AOL released a bunch of raw search data for research purposes. A key, unintentional finding of the research was that it's often very easy to look at an individual's internet search history and figure out their real identity.

 

[Supersonic Swinger]

1,800 a year to let QFF know what you're searching on a Yahoo browser? No thanks - will probably download for the bonus and then delete.

 

[chrispy3276]

I just tried to install the toolbar and when I went to restart my browser (after being prompted) got a 'blue screen of death'. Definitely not going to use if it's going to compromise my PC.

 

[moa999]

gusty.. what browser/PC.

Mine works fine on Firefox 21.0 on a Corei5 Ultrabook

 

[opusman]

I installed it on an XP VM. Didn't seem to work in IE, worked ok in Chrome though.

 

[Limewood]

Unfortunately incompatible with Macs.

So not suitable for the largest selling computers and pads in the world how strange

 

[trippin_the_rift]

So not suitable for the largest selling computers and pads in the world how strange

That's thegrey hairs making decisions
Just like they launched the super Qantas app on Windows mobile first. Really weird.

 

[Saintza]

Installed, logged in, did a search, logged out, and uninstalled.

Thanks for the heads up Pinkmoose

 

[markis10]

So not suitable for the largest selling computers and pads in the world how strange

Apple only have 11.6% of the computer market and 40% of the tablet market based on Q1 2013 IDC figures.

 

[chrispy3276]

gusty.. what browser/PC.

Mine works fine on Firefox 21.0 on a Corei5 Ultrabook

HP ProBook, Firefox 21.0

 

[spentan]

Its not like they're coming through your house and reading your documents.

You can control what you're searching for, as long as you're doing it in the toolbar, be aware that you're being logged etc.

 

[Limewood]

Apple only have 11.6% of the computer market and 40% of the tablet market based on Q1 2013 IDC figures.

Is that all

Just thinking all our friends have Apple can't think of one that doesn't.