popups are bad mmmmkay

[Testin da Cable]

why? what is the point of making a popup that hides itself?

I can understand popups, I hate them, but I understand the general idea of an advertisment. I can understand an ad in it's own window. I can even, with some difficulty, understand why code is added that spawns a zillion more popup ads to punish the evil user who was stupid enough to dare to close the ad in the first place. such a fool deserves to have a never-ending array of popups exploding onto his desktop surely?

I just can't grasp why the 'in thing' of the moment is to have the ads hide themselves. jumping behind other windows, minimizing themselves, containing code that inhibits window closure etc. why? isn't the idea behind it to bring the product or service into the consumer's view? isn't the point behind advertising bringing your product or service into the direct _view_ of the masses? do 'they' not realise that getting people to hate ads in general will harm the product's rep? gah!

</monday rant>


thank you, that is all. btw, typing the above gave me a serious sense of deja-vu. I believe I've typed a 'tdc hates popups' thread before heh.

 

[dysfunction]

perhaps its trying to install spyware on your pc??

I hate those popups too btw

 

[Gef]

Those 'hidden' popups are simply another window that sits in your taskbar running a script that constantly spawns new popups.

Bastards, use Mozilla

 

[dysfunction]

Mozilla sucks...

I'd rather put up with the popups

 

[Nos-]

Mozilla is wonderful.

 

[Trem]

I'm getting it now....................does it suck or is it wonderful?

 

[Testin da Cable]

mozilla is cool. the only thing I dislike about it up to now is that it causes errors in the BW arcade software.

 

[Perplex]

Just woke up.
In the industry they're called pop-unders.
Most of them work in a banner ad type way.
The chump who caused it to spawn on your PC gets a few cents revenue for each 'hit' or 'spawn' of the companies ad.
Yes, they are gay

 

[stu]

Mozilla sucks the dog's dick

 

[PR.]

Somebody here ages ago recommended Proxymitron, its free it runs under windows you simply set it as your www proxy in IE and off it goes, kills all popups and removes adverts replacing them with [Ad] it can do anything from disabling Javscript.

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by Perplex
Just woke up.
In the industry they're called pop-unders.
Most of them work in a banner ad type way.
The chump who caused it to spawn on your PC gets a few cents revenue for each 'hit' or 'spawn' of the companies ad.
Yes, they are gay

whoever codes them deserves to have their eyeballs dusted with fiberglass powder

 

[dysfunction]

Originally posted by PR.
Somebody here ages ago recommended Proxymitron, its free it runs under windows you simply set it as your www proxy in IE and off it goes, kills all popups and removes adverts replacing them with [Ad] it can do anything from disabling Javscript.

You mean this ?

 

[PR.]

Originally posted by dysfunction
You mean this ?

Yup thats it

 

[Gef]

Originally posted by stu
Mozilla sucks the dog's dick

Give me one reason why?

 

[raw]

Proxi program sounds like the win, think i'll take a copy of that.

Thanks PR, popups do my fucking head in!

 

[Testin da Cable]

phoenix blocks them by default, unless you say it's ok

 

[Dimebag]

I thought the idea was they spawn behind the window you're looking at so when you eventually close it the advert springs up into your face and makes you take notice. Its not exactly hard to understand is it?

The moment the user sees the window "popup" to the foreground they simply close it. Open it behind the active window and it has time to load fully and then WILL be viewed by the user if they havent spotted another IE window popup on the task bar.

The ones that open and sit on your task bar just spawn adverts every 30 odd seconds or so and can even take different guises. Ive seen one with the word icon and the text read "Microsoft Word - Docume...". Quite cunning tbh.

Over all I think you've either not woken up properly seeing as its monday, or you're just a bit dense.

PS

Oh yeah on the issue of mozilla... dont get me started on that. People give up their free time to make addons and code for mozilla that gets added into the browser software. Fine. Then AOL Time Warner who own netscape openly use the updates and benefits of this system and encorporate them directly into the new Netscape versions without having to do any work for themselves what so ever. I steer clear, its blatant robbery.

 

[Ulysses777]

Re: Re: popups are bad mmmmkay

Originally posted by Dimebag
I thought the idea was they spawn behind the window you're looking at so when you eventually close it the advert springs up into your face and makes you take notice. Its not exactly hard to understand is it?

The moment the user sees the window "popup" to the foreground they simply close it. Open it behind the active window and it has time to load fully and then WILL be viewed by the user.

That only really applies if you're on a 56k, or the site that you're viewing is connected to the 'net by a piece of string. Otherwise, normal popups load almost instantly, so you see them anyway.

And you never see pop-unders if you close them like I do, that is right-clicking them on the taskbar, then clicking Close.

 

[Quige]

Opera has some reasonable built in pop-up control if you're after another non IE browser. I only occasionally have to break out the IE these days

I used to use Webwasher, which could also proxy and filter for the rest of the LAN, but am currently using Norton Internet Security, which seems to be quite good at stopping pop-ups.

However that Proxomitron proggy looks pretty interesting .. I'm going to give it a go I think. Thanks PR & dysfunction