[TriLUG] TurboTax for the web and linux

[Steven Blanchard]

konquer, for one, has a menu to change the browser/os tag sent. That 
would prob fool the turbotax webserver. I don't use konquer on a daily 
basis, so I can't say whether or not it would handle anything else that 
they might to try to throw at it... I don't know about any other 
browsers that do that, but would not surprise me if others do.

~steven

Andrew Perrin wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> Last year I did our taxes on TurboTax for the Web from a linux machine
> (debian potato, then running probably Netscape 4.0x or something like
> that). I tried to do so again this year and found that they've turned it
> off for any non-Windows/Mac browser.  Questions:
> 
> - Any ideas for devious, or not-so-devious, ways to get around this?
> - Any ideas for convincing them to change policies?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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