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[old.Jas]

Popup ads really annoy me, and I believe they have hit a new low.

 

[dysfunction]

Pop Up Stopper is the king!! Kills em all!!!

 

[pcg79]

OMG GET SOME PTORTECTION!!!!!!1!1 YUO CAN BE ATTACKED !1!1!!!!!!11111

 

[ECA]

Can we hunt down and kill the people that make a living of them?
and if not, we should legalise it and then hunt them down and kill them.
Bandwidth Thiefs.

 

[Shocko]

The problem lies with the idiots who use crap web browsers(naming no names *cough*) that don't give you control over what javascript can do.

If no-one saw the popups, then they wouldn't be there.

 

[old.Jas]

Ah - is there a jab at Microsoft software users in there somewhere?

 

[dysfunction]

Life wouldnt be as enjoyable as it is without taking jabs at Microsoft Software!

 

[Munkey-]

heh. great fun watching Click|Online (BBC proggy) trying to explain this to someone about the internet.


and webcams


and pop-ups.


they know shit

 

[Embattle]

Originally posted by Shocko
The problem lies with the idiots who use crap web browsers(naming no names *cough*) that don't give you control over what javascript can do.

If no-one saw the popups, then they wouldn't be there.

Oh look what a surprise.

 

[Shocko]

But do you dissagree though?

You choose to use a browser that doesn't let you choose what remote hosts can do; It's your own fault!

 

[Embattle]

Blah blah blah go away hairy hippie....I won't repeat myself

Most people just don't care either, since you're a Linux user its natural to be anal about everything and try and control it all.

 

[Shocko]

It's a question of choice. I choose not to let people do things on my computer, that I don't want them to do.

Run your own computer how you want, just don't have ago at me, for pointing out the blatant truth, in a thread where people are bitching about advertisements. You choose to have popups ads, so quit whining

 

[Kempo]

win2k+nprton internet security = no ads and good os

linux = no ads and need a degree to uyse it to any advantge

thnx drink gg nn etc :| drunk argh bye lk;fjnsdl;k'fsd

 

[Embattle]

Originally posted by Shocko
Run your own computer how you want, just don't have ago at me, for pointing out the blatant truth, in a thread where people are bitching about advertisements. You choose to have popups ads, so quit whining

Again, again, again and again...btw I don't have to have pop up ads so it shows how little you know, as stated in a reply before to your silly ramblings.

 

[bodhi]

Originally posted by Shocko
It's a question of choice. I choose not to let people do things on my computer, that I don't want them to do.

Run your own computer how you want, just don't have ago at me, for pointing out the blatant truth, in a thread where people are bitching about advertisements. You choose to have popups ads, so quit whining

Yes. But we choose to wash occasionally, cut our hair and have intelligible conversations with people in real life. Being a Linux user you do none of the above. So shut the fuck up.

 

[Kempo]

while im drunk bodhi can u put me in contact with a decent marajuana supplier when i get to uni plz? rar :|

 

[bodhi]

I can. And on the Tuesday night of Fresher's Week you have to come in my group for the pub crawl mmkay. I'll have you all snorting aftershock and shotgunning beer before the night is out


I'll be the committee member the Senior Student keeps taking the piss out of for turning up stoned to committee meetings and not really doing an awful lot. I was the greatest computer convenor in history tho!

 

[PR.]

Anyone with the Google Toolbar maybe interested in the fact that in the Advanced 'experimental' options there is a box to supress the 'onUnload' function on webpages to stop the pop up > close pop up > pop up.

While its not a total cure it does help the lazy peeps such as myself

 

[b00bie]

My fav is the one that says you computer can be accessed and shows you a dir. of your c drive in the window.

Silentb00b{KEA}

 

[raw.]

Originally posted by Silentb00b{KEA}
My fav is the one that says you computer can be accessed and shows you a dir. of your c drive in the window.

Silentb00b{KEA}

heh that url was floating around irc ages ago, just a simple iframe pointing to c: - obviously its gonna find c:\ so makes anyone with out a brain cell worry

 

[stu]

Originally posted by Shocko
It's a question of choice. I choose not to let people do things on my computer, that I don't want them to do.

Run your own computer how you want, just don't have ago at me, for pointing out the blatant truth, in a thread where people are bitching about advertisements. You choose to have popups ads, so quit whining

Actually not opting-out is not the same thing as opting-in, as any good internet spammer will know. So we didn't choose anything.

I tried out Mozilla, and I have to say it was great, no popups. Mainly because it crashed so often they didn't have time to load.

Regardless, popups don't really bother me - mainly because 1) I can get rid of them quickly and 2) you only get them on dodgy pron sites or cheap free-host sites, neither of which I make a habit of visiting. Now, those new Flash "pop-over" ads... *they* are bloody irritating, and afaik there's no efficient way to kill them.

 

[Shocko]

Delete your flash pluggin

You seem to be missing the point - If you're happy to have popups ads, then i'm happy for you to be happy. However, people like Jas moan about popups - whilst completely ignoring the concept of "another browser". Oh, and Bods, i shower every day

 

[xane]

I did come across a personal website where the guy had an ongoing mission to stop pop-ups simply by creating a list for the hosts file, I'll see if I can find it again.

 

[stu]

Originally posted by Shocko
Delete your flash pluggin

You seem to be missing the point - If you're happy to have popups ads, then i'm happy for you to be happy. However, people like Jas moan about popups - whilst completely ignoring the concept of "another browser". Oh, and Bods, i shower every day

I'm not happy about popup ads at all. And I'll fully consider another browser, when there is another one worth using. One which doesn't use up shitloads of system resources, take an age to start up, crash frequently, and have a horrendous disregard for standards, that is.

Uninstalling flash would not be wise, given I frequently design using it.

 

[Shocko]

Since you're obviously dissing Mozilla, some facts:
1) Mozilla *appears* to take up more resources. This is because IE is cached into your memory on startup - If you didn't have IE, you'd have more resources when free when you're not browsing the web.
2) Mozilla takes me about 3seconds to startup if it's allready cached into the ram, and about 5 if i've been playing q3 or something. Considering i only have to start it once per web browsing session, this is hardly a calamity.
3) I've only had one crash with the 1.0 releases, which was when i hadn't quit mozzy before going to bed, so when i got up, i just carried on using it, which resulted in a crash upon loading a page. Considering i use mozilla for several hours everyday, this is an impecable record.
4) Mozilla renders html4 perfectly, implements css brilliantly, and has good support of javascript.

Let me get this straight. You don't like popups, yet you choose to use a web browser that doesn't give you control of what you view... By all means, do what you want when it comes web browsing; Just stop with all this moaning about ads.

 

[NaveT]

Try the browser - Opera

 

[stu]

Originally posted by Shocko
Since you're obviously dissing Mozilla, some facts:
1) Mozilla *appears* to take up more resources. This is because IE is cached into your memory on startup - If you didn't have IE, you'd have more resources when free when you're not browsing the web.

Oh, that old china. So what? IE *is* part of the Windows shell. Saying that therefore the fact that it's faster is moot is like saying it doesn't count that turbocharging an engine makes it more powerful.

Of course, it would have absolutely *nothing* to do with the fact that Mozilla has to load the APF and then the browser-suite. It *must* be IE cheating And don't even get me started on "Quick Launch".

2) Mozilla takes me about 3seconds to startup if it's allready cached into the ram, and about 5 if i've been playing q3 or something. Considering i only have to start it once per web browsing session, this is hardly a calamity.

That's about 2.8 seconds too long. Plus, most of us do this thing called "multitask" - right now I've got 5 IE windows open, and that's a fairly average session.

3) I've only had one crash with the 1.0 releases, which was when i hadn't quit mozzy before going to bed, so when i got up, i just carried on using it, which resulted in a crash upon loading a page. Considering i use mozilla for several hours everyday, this is an impecable record.

And also not representative of Mozilla as a whole. Here's what some review sites had to say about Mozilla (note - NONE of these are typically pro-MS, anti-Linux/OS/Mozilla sites - one of them is in fact a pro-Mozilla site).

"Mozilla still does not seem to handle Windows memory as well as it should."

"The Mozilla crash problems we experienced in our evaluations appear to arise from Mozilla's memory consumption problems. With plenty of Web pages opened in a combination of Mozilla windows (and tabs opened in those windows) Mozilla easily can bring free system resources down to zero -- thus crashing either Mozilla or the entire system."

"All-in-all, the Mozilla 1.0 browser-suite does not offer any compelling, performance reason for people to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to AOL-Netscape's Mozilla browser."

4) Mozilla renders html4 perfectly, implements css brilliantly, and has good support of javascript.

Nice 'fact'. Now go to bugzilla.mozilla.org. Type in 'HTML'. "1896 bugs found". Try the same with 'css' (486 bugs) or 'javascript' (855 bugs). Now read O'Reilly's reports on how Mozilla is the least standard-adherent modern browser available.

Let me get this straight. You don't like popups, yet you choose to use a web browser that doesn't give you control of what you view... By all means, do what you want when it comes web browsing; Just stop with all this moaning about ads.

No. I choose to use a reliable, stable, quick, efficient browser. Suppression of popup ads is not my primary requirement. Having said that, I also do not choose to have popups hijack my desktop - the owners of the popups choose to do so. That's the difference between not-opting out and opting in, which is what I said originally. If you are run over when crossing the road, you didn't choose to be run over by virtue of the fact that you didn't explicitly choose not to be run over by walking on the pavement.

 

[Shocko]

Firstly, if you get run over whilst in the middle of the road, then it is your fault you got run over. By all means, crossing the road shouldn't equal playing with death, however crossing the road puts your safety in your own hands.

On the subject of multitasking - There is no need to start multiple sessions of mozilla; No wonder it seems like a memory hog to you You can easily open a new window in mozilla, by pressing Ctrl-n or Ctrl-1, which for me has a delay less than a second. Allthough we all know that windows users aren't that bright when it comes to understanding. Click on an "icon", click in a menu, same thing isn't it

Infact, i know what will be more fun that answering your points, i'll just stereotype windows users. Works well vice-versa dunnit

 

[stu]

No, it demonstrates that you don't know what you're on about, make up "facts" and then have nothing to say when they're proved wrong. but GG! anyway