Sounds like an arrangement that happens in the developing world, where landowners and businessmen are down with police chiefs at weekend drinking binges and sports betting.

How it used to be old GSM phones like those from Nokia that were then the thing for the underworld.

Stuff like medical record portals, financial websites for my companies retirement plan. Stuff I have little choice about. And most fail silently.

I recall how South Korea literally painted itself into a corner for becoming too dependent on Internet Explorer after years of using it with a security implementation based entirely on ActiveX.

I’m currently using a user-agent switcher plugin. Allows me to spoof servers into believing I’m running a different browser.