I can't really find sympathy for users using old browers / outdated browsers or even weird non popular browsers. Web standards change far to much to provide full backwards compatibility, and at some point it's not worth targeting users that refuse to move on the newer and better technology.

If a site hasn't had a major redesign then yea, they probably support IE 11. But when doing a redesign, it's usually better to drop compatibility for old stuff, especially when IE usage isn't great anyway. Most people that use it are in corporations, not regular internet users. The most used browser is Chrome by a large margin, and most sites are tested with that in mind.

This is a good read:
https://medium.com/@burger.neal/the-end-of-life-of-internet-explorer-11-12736f9ff75f

EDIT: This design is bad though.

I like my Windows 10 Microsoft Edge browser. It's my only browser these days. Does that count?

It doesn't matter what browser you use and in which mode you operate (e.g. invisible / incognito), information about your location, search requests (for ads and not only), your possible age and salary can still be obtained pretty easily. You don't need to worry that much if only you are not a public person. In my personal experience Chrome collected data about my applications and sent it somewhere for reasons unknown (probably to make my life better).

I highly recommend to abstain from using any social messengers on the same PC if you want to secure your personal data a bit better.

If you like Google's Chrome, but don't like all the tracking, try Chromium.

https://chromium.woolyss.com/

Download a "Stable" release - highlighted by green. Blue = Dev builds.
You can use Chrome's Extensions, such as ublock origin.

By the way, if you're on Chrome, I believe the bit that tracks you is in here

C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\SwReporter

Where XXXXX = your Windows username.



True that, thank you for stating the obvious, lemme guess, next you will post that the sky is blue and chocolate chip cookies are good?



IE11 isn't a modern browser, it's a "Life support" browser. There aren't to be any further feature updates, and bugfixes are on a case basis.

(There's a support article somewhere on the Microsoft website that explains this.)

I'm sure there are some sites out there that still load in Netscape but that doesn't make it any less obsolete. The fact that some sites still work in IE11 is irrelevant, it's a dead browser (while it may be getting security patches, it's not being updated to keep up with new web technologies). As time moves on fewer and fewer sites will work.
I am not telling you you shouldn't like IE11, just insisting on using it is only going to restrict your web use more and more as time goes on.
I'm sure there were Netscape users in your position a few years after it was discontinued and I'm sure *many* sites still worked on it at that point, but not any more.

Latest IE11 was released on November 13, 2018, it is younger than two weeks old.

I know IE11 will never support fancy new features found in new websites, but GOG definitely do not need those fancy features.

IE11 is still default browser of Windows 8.1, and many GOG games are not compatible with Windows 10 yet.

That means, major customers of GOG still use Windows 8.1 or older OS, but GOG have abandoned them.

Well that has some nice features.
Especially when it doesn't try to run scripts on locally saved web pages.

In case someone wants to experiment, save some script heavy web page (at least Fanatical is one of them), then try to open it locally. For some reason Opera and Firefox flash that page in a millisecond, and then try to redirect the page elsewhere. Edge actually shows that page as it was meant to be saved.

Whether that is a positive feature of Edge, or whether it's a sign that it treats scripts differently than most browsers, is another topic.

Either way, creating such script heavy sites that can't be even saved as normal web pages without problems is quite disturbing, and really points the blaming finger at Fanatical (and GOG, and others).

Just like everything microsoft, IE has been poisoning internet since it hijacked it via preinstallation (like MS has hijacked PC market in days of DR/DOS). The actions are similar to DirectX and .doc, IE has been ignoring standards and pushing its own, requiring a lot of web developers to write code specifically for IE.

From commercial perspective, there was a lot of sense doing that, but none of these were beneficial to the community of users, of developers or ecosystem. So its still criminal.

After Firefox and Chrome (KDE KHTML->Webkit->Chrome) finally gained momentum and pushed IE from the market, IE still had hard time following standards since.

So if the website is broken, go ahead, fix your IE.


If you paint a can of crap with gold paint, its still crap inside.

Using firefox esr here site works fine, but the last time it didn't when they added the giveaway to witcher 3 concert video, so it was impossible to redeem and other things were broken so then somebody luckily suggested a portable app opera portable 36(only needed if you are a win xp user) and it worked to redeem it and also site wasn't broken.
Also now it again works with firefox esr since the giveaway went away, magicly fixing the site.
Kinda liked the old design better when we could easily redeem free games and the site wasn't broken, only good thing i see is how reviews look now with the verified owners.

Uhh, that's daring :)