[OPLINTECH] Coupons.com

[Joe]

We take the same position as Chad stated: if you physically can do it, 
you're generally allowed to, and I have occasionally gone back and 
installed software on all of our computers if there was a demand for it 
and it was free and it was generally harmless.

In this case, I've actually used coupons.com's printer outside of work, 
and from my experience I would discourage you from installing it.

it's primary purpose is to limit each computer to two printings of any 
given coupon.  So you'd get a situation where the patrons wanting to use 
it would find that the coupons they want would be randomly unavailable 
on a computer by computer basis at any given time.
That said, I've never tried to use it on a computer with something like 
deepfreeze or another application that restores a computer after 
logout/reboot/etc.  I know it's partially depended upon cookies or some 
other form of locally stored information and, from some of the reading 
I've done, it seems that the printer also "calls home" to help avoid 
people trying to get around the code. One writer described it as working 
rather like a virus in that manner, if I recall correctly.

Also, from what I saw the code once in a while will tell the user that 
it printed their coupon, and neglect to share that information with the 
printer.

So I would say no it.  Though, I am genuinely curious as to whether it 
would work at all on a locked down machine, and if it did if it would 
successfully remember how many of a given coupon that machine had 
already printed..

Best of luck.

Joe

Joseph Knueven
Director
Germantown Public Library
51 N. Plum St.
Germantown, OH 45327
937-855-4001
knuevejo at oplin.org

On 6/5/2014 2:31 PM, Chad Neeper wrote:
> All patron computers I work with are frozen. General rule of thumb is 
> that if the patrons _can_ do something, I don't really care (as long 
> as it's not illegal or damaging to the library in any way). Whatever 
> they do gets wiped upon reboot. So if they can find a way to install 
> the coupon program with the privileges available to them and without 
> rebooting...go for it!
>
> ______________________________
> *Chad Neeper*
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> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Mohamed Ragheb 
> <MRAGHEB at cuyahogalibrary.org <mailto:MRAGHEB at cuyahogalibrary.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     Recently we have been getting more customers asking/ wanting to be
>     able to print coupons from coupons.com <http://coupons.com>, it's
>     an issue as this site require an installation and admin privilege
>     for a coupon printer before you can print them out.
>
>     Do you allow your customers to print from this site or not? And if
>     you do allow how do you handle the installer?
>
>     Thanks for your input!
>
>     /Mohamed A. Ragheb, M.Tec./
>
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