I don’t think it’s a troll. I get a redirect to 3dcartstores.com when I try to visit zebralight.com in firefox. I can get to it in other browsers though. Not sure if it’s my plugins or their site doesn’t work right with firefox but I can see how someone would think their site is offline.
I’ve had this redirect happen in certain browsers when I didn’t type ‘www.’
Sending things back to China isn’t really cost effective usually with a budget light which Acebeam is not. Perhaps a Sofirn or Convoy brand. You could buy 2 or 3 for the price of one Acebeam and in the unlikely case one quits working you are still covered.
given his response, i no longer think he was trolling. i agree with you.
but as you deviate from standard software configuration (firefox in this case), it increasingly becomes your responsibility to understand what's going on. otherwise, you risk creating misunderstandings for yourself or others. like publicly declaring that a business may be defunct lol :)
you both indicate that you use addons/plugins.
in a vanilla installation of firefox, visiting "zebralight.com" or "www.zebralight.com" works -- i just tested. on the other hand, i am not a fan of their website and how they present information. i think they make it very hard for anyone but a hardened flashlight/emitter nerd to understand their offerings.
The addons are not affecting whether or not I can see the zebralight.com page.
I was going to attach a couple of screenshots but since I can’t just do a simple drag/drop attachment, will skip it.
The security settings for Firefox 88 either allow or default to
Enable HTTPS-Only Mode in all windows.
The other two options are
Enable HTTPS-Only Mode in private windows only.
or
Don’t enable HTTPS-Only Mode.
I bumped up my security settings and am using the Enable HTTPS-Only Mode in all windows.
When I goto http://www.zebralight.com, I am quickly redirected/forwarded to a page w a green background from 3dcartstores.com stating the page I am looking for is no longer active….and some other garbage.
Now having looked around, and temporarily cutting back my security settings to allow Http: mode, I ended up on
https://zebralight.3dcartstores.com/crm.asp?action=contactus
page as well as being able to browse their store which is NOT HTTPS.
I sent them an email about this a couple of days ago mentioning that I could not use their website since it is not all HTTPS, and asked a couple other questions.
I have yet to hear back from them. But as I said, it was only a couple days ago.
At one point, I completely uninstalled Firefox, removed all add-ons, and did a clean install. I still had the same issue with their website. It seems to be because they don’t use HTTPS on all their pages.
I was not and have never ‘trolled’ websites.
I apologize if my original wording caused folks to get a bug up their butt about this but I was just replying with what information I had when trying to look at their flashlights.
Actually ….ZL has either never instituted the HTTPS or let it lapse. So that page should be redirected to the non-secure site HTTP, but its not.
Many redirects are cause by malware. Wouldnt hurt to run malwarebytes. But this is not the case with the zl site.
I uninstall junkware, plugins, add-ons, browser helper objects, toolbars, useless free stuff, and I scan with Kaspersky, and every time I am still redirected to the surface of a severely overrated planet, replete with it surface of average hostility and denizens of average wickedness. Thank God for flashlight people and other spiritual, nice people.
Zebralight: I have read many nice posts about high quality regulation, high quality electronics, high quality heat sinking and dissipation, and high quality construction from Zebralight. But I still, after all of these years, have not gotten one yet, same with Elzetta, HDS or Malkoff. Maybe soon. I am currently set on EC03, FT02S, D4V2, FW4a, NSX, D18, KR1, and much larger size/power class lights.
I don't get much malware on my computers or my mom's computer, but my favorite tool for getting rid of malware is AdwCleaner.
It scans extremely quickly and gets rid of the occasional bad stuff it finds.
I also use Avast Free Antivirus for general protection, but almost never do virus scans with Avast.
Let’s not act like zebralights are made in the USA. They’re not too different from Olight in that regard.
And I love my Zebras. I’m just saying.
Sorry to revive an old probably unwanted thread. But, just thought I should update.
It’s been 2 1/2 months since I sent my K60 back. I emailed Acebeam, they said they just got it in the mail and would hopefully ship it within a week and would update me with the tracking info and status. That was a couple weeks ago so I emailed again a few days ago and haven’t heard back yet. Hopefully soon.
Cheers