Popups

[Raven]

I agree that you have the right to try - but when you go to a website you're effectively rocking up to a shop front and they've a right to try and get you to buy shit.

Yes but with any traditional street or shop advertising it can be easily ignored, with a stupid great big pop up that has to be manually closed before you can get at what you want not so much. Its like a salesman wandering round the shop sticking a poster in your face whenever you look at something.

I don't see ads on the internet, not done in years so they don't bother me, the concept however, does.

And before anyone starts bleating on about online shops or websites needing ad revenue. Fuck'um.

Its not like the ads are even targeted for the most part, just random shit that nobody actually wants.

 

[DaGaffer]

Bollocks.

Its like telling a pushy salesman to fuck off then going and finding what you want and buying it.

It's my browser, on my PC or phone, I have the right to block whatever I want to. Ads, pop ups, suggestions etc can all get in the sea. Even more so on a mobile device where data usage becomes an issue.

Yes, and when you go to stores with pushy salesmen, what do you do? You either ignore the pushy salesman (done here by clicking x) or, you don't go back to the store because you don't like pushy salesmen. Those are your choices. You can of course ad block all you like, but the store has the right to try and stop that, because its their store. In reality, if you block stuff, they don't give a crap about you as an individual, fill your boots because they still make money off the people who don't, and at the end of the day, that's their job.

NB. FWIW good online retailers rarely do popups or overlays unless there's an actual benefit to the customer (like a voucher code or customer service tools) and using blockers and js blockers can break that functionality. That Amazon one is actually quite unusual for them.

 

[DaGaffer]

So why can't sites offer you a popup at first time visit, "Do you mind if we pop up shit in front of you?". Make your choice and then move forward. I've never had a popup on Amazon despite visiting it most days but am not sure if that is down to my software/fw I use.

Heh, just went to Amazon (following a link of Tom's in the tech forum) and got that popup, and guess what? There is indeed a checkbox on the popup that says "do not show me this again".

 

[Deebs]

Heh, just went to Amazon (following a link of Tom's in the tech forum) and got that popup, and guess what? There is indeed a checkbox on the popup that says "do not show me this again".

That's interesting to know but I would want it to be for every possible popup not just that particular one. Or even better, a setting in my account preferences I can activate.

 

[Deebs]

Just an update to my previous image posted on 23rd Feb.



Check the difference in the number of packets blocked for DNSBL_ADSDNSGroup and DNSBL_MaliciousDNSGroup....

 

[Tom]

I don't understand any of that but I still get these things in my face. And another thing, the stupid shit that SLIDES!!! HEY SLIDES!!! into the bottom right corner of a web page when you get near the bottom of whatever it is you're reading. FUCK OFF.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwM_-jyKQIs

 

[DaGaffer]

I don't understand any of that but I still get these things in my face. And another thing, the stupid shit that SLIDES!!! HEY SLIDES!!! into the bottom right corner of a web page when you get near the bottom of whatever it is you're reading. FUCK OFF.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwM_-jyKQIs

That's a browser push and if you're using Chrome or FF it usually means you've opted in to stuff. You can turn it off in chrome in settings, content, notifications.

 

[Wij]

It's less the annoyance for me and more the huge malware potential. Blocking Ads is a safety necessity these days.

 

[Tom]

That's a browser push and if you're using Chrome or FF it usually means you've opted in to stuff. You can turn it off in chrome in settings, content, notifications.

No it isn't, I know the difference. Random example:

An Ethical Alternative for Fast Fashion - Verge Magazine

 

[Job]

Ive actually given up on the Daily Mash website, I know they need an income, but the ads are sadistic, I think the ad coders are confusing really fucking annoying with really popular.

 

[Wij]

Ive actually given up on the Daily Mash website, I know they need an income, but the ads are sadistic, I think the ad coders are confusing really fucking annoying with really popular.

Mobile site with mobile FF and AB+ is fine.

 

[Deebs]

View attachment 31714

So just over a year on and the packet counts speak for themselves.

 

[Tom]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvYeLxMKN8

 

[SilverHood]

There's a new browser called Brave that blocks a lot of ads by its design. I use it to read Forbes, Indepedent and other add insane sites.

 

[Job]

Wrote a blog for the missus, just did it in basic html, so it runs like dream on even the oldest phones.

She wanted more , so I added Facebook comments, likes and share, how easy is that to do, just cut paste about 20 lines of code
from their online code generator.
I feel like a haxxor.