Fuck POP-UPS!

[Lolo]

I hate pop-ups. Trying to surf and those fucking pop-ups keep popping up.

lower your mortage, get a credit card, fuck teenage sluts!

fuck pop-ups!

[BoBettie]

Goddamn, but something about that cracked me right up.

Lower your mortgage, get a credit card, fuck teenage sluts!

Maybe it was the exclaimation point at the end...in any case, it made me actually laugh out loud, so I'm gonna give it a 9. Nice and simple, full of angst and frustration.

Zette

[Kamandi]

Pop-ups? Pop-ups are great! Especially the Strawberry ones. I love that crusty, sugary frosting with the sprinkles. Piping hot, straight outta the toaster. Ooh, ow, HOT! Man, they're good. I eat two at a time 'cause they come two in an envelope and you can't put one back and let it go all stale, right? It's those Pillsbury Toaster Strudel abominations that suck. Greasy, sloppy things that sag and fall apart in the toaster. Who are they trying to fool? Poaching on the market that somebody else created with the glorious, perfect, pop-up. Mmmmmm...









...what?

[Homebrew]

I agree with Lolo. Is it time to up my medication or your's?

[Lolo]

Originally posted by Homebrew
I agree with Lolo. Is it time to up my medication or your's?

what?
is this about the God stuff?

do you feel you can't agree with me b/c of the god-stuff?

[Enderw24]

God created pop-ups? Oh man, we're all going to hell.

[Homebrew]

It's called humor, Lolo. I was making a joke.

(Of course your reply might also be humor, in which case I've been whooshed.)

[Lolo]

I understood you were making a joke, Homebrew. I was just curious about its origins.

[THespos]

I'm in the online advertising biz, and I'm proud to say that I've never booked a popup ad for any of my clients. Online media sites keep telling me that they're effective as hell, outperforming banner ads by ridiculous margins, but I refuse to run them. Why? Because everyone hates them. How many anti-popup threads have we seen in the Pit over the past few months? Bucketloads.

Clients generally take my advice that running pop-ups destroys their brand by associating it with folks like X-10 and whoever is running those "Account Overcharge" ads. But sometimes they want proof.

Wanna help?

Post your anti-popup rants here and I will copy them to the next client who asks me what I think of popups.

[don't ask]

If people didn't hate popups would this exist?

[Syzygy]

While I can't stand popups, I really can't stand pop-unders. I hate it when I close a browser window, just to find that "Cum-Guzzling Fuck Sluts" have taken over the screen, unbeknownst to me. "You have 1 new message" - Lemme guess - another fucking sales pitch?

Aargh! Die, advertisers, die!

(Except for ad people like THespos, who don't have to resort to these tactics.)

[Xploder]

Well, if you're using Internet Explorer, click tools, internet options, security, custom level and then check disable active scripting. That WILL take care of popups. If you're using Netscape, you're on your own.

[Kamandi]

Originally posted by THespos
I'm in the online advertising biz, and I'm proud to say that I've never booked a popup ad for any of my clients. Online media sites keep telling me that they're effective as hell, outperforming banner ads by ridiculous margins, but I refuse to run them. Why? Because everyone hates them. How many anti-popup threads have we seen in the Pit over the past few months? Bucketloads.

Clients generally take my advice that running pop-ups destroys their brand by associating it with folks like X-10 and whoever is running those "Account Overcharge" ads. But sometimes they want proof.

Wanna help?

Post your anti-popup rants here and I will copy them to the next client who asks me what I think of popups.

THespos, I think I speak for everyone here when I say, from the bottom of my colon, thank you.

[ThunderBunny]

In the early days of the internet, people warned each other about the potential of going to shady web sites which would launch unwanted applications that might use up your memory or take control of your computer in ways you didn't want them to.

But now they're businesses and it's just an acceptable advertising policy because it results in more sales.

I don't buy it. If I ran unwanted things on their system, to the point of getting in their way of doing work, they'd call it a denial of service and run to their lawyers.

[k.os]

I really wonder how come these things are legal. The worse if when you close a window and three or four open. If I had the person who created that code in front of me, they'd know how I feel.

[Bad News Baboon]

Originally posted by Kamandi
Pop-ups? Pop-ups are great! Especially the Strawberry ones. I love that crusty, sugary frosting with the sprinkles. Piping hot, straight outta the toaster. Ooh, ow, HOT! Man, they're good. I eat two at a time 'cause they come two in an envelope and you can't put one back and let it go all stale, right? It's those Pillsbury Toaster Strudel abominations that suck. Greasy, sloppy things that sag and fall apart in the toaster. Who are they trying to fool? Poaching on the market that somebody else created with the glorious, perfect, pop-up. Mmmmmm...

\
...what?

Damn you are so stupid!

EVERYBODY knows pop ups are a frozen treat.

[PunditLisa]

Don't blame the advertisers. Blame the idiot who actually BOUGHT the hidden camera. Bastard.

[Lolo]

Originally posted by k.os
I really wonder how come these things are legal. The worse if when you close a window and three or four open. If I had the person who created that code in front of me, they'd know how I feel.

we can't make anything illegal on the net. Once we make rules about pop-ups, they'll take away everything, including the porn!

[Rockmotteller]

Originally posted by Xploder
Well, if you're using Internet Explorer, click tools, internet options, security, custom level and then check disable active scripting. That WILL take care of popups. If you're using Netscape, you're on your own.

What does active scripting do besides pop-ups? I'd love to get rid of the pop-ups, but don't want to lose good capabilities (if any).

[The Great Gazoo]

Originally posted by Rockmotteller

What does active scripting do besides pop-ups? I'd love to get rid of the pop-ups, but don't want to lose good capabilities (if any).

Yeah, don't disable that. You won't be able to do a lot of things. There is a link above to a popup killer. This works pretty well. There are actually several others that let you pick and choose which popups you want, so that if you want one, and there are a couple of sites I go to that I want to see the popups, you can get it.

Also, if you see a site that uses popups, e-mail them on it! A couple of sites that I have e-mailed on it sent me an e-mail back saying "Sorry, my ad person or ISP said there would be limited popups." And the popups disappeared next time I went there. (Note: these were smaller sites where the e-mail actually went to the creator and owner, not an AOL or MSN site).

And I agree with PunditLisa, Don't blame the advertisers. Blame the idiot who actually BOUGHT the hidden camera. Bastard.

Stop buying things from these ads. Stop buying things from telemarketers. Throw away your junk mail unread! You will never win Publisher's Sweepstakes. Throw it away!!

Thank you.

[Homebrew]

Originally posted by Lolo
I understood you were making a joke, Homebrew. I was just curious about its origins.

The source of my joke was less your opposition to religion and more about your intransigence in threads about God and religion.

[Lyllyan]

Or you could hie yourself over to ZDnet and download "Pop Up Killer". I have only had it a couple of days, but it seems to be working fairly well, and makes a cool noise when it kills an ad.

[Mangetout]

or there's Killad (now apparently called Mr. Killad, which is freeware; I have a previous version of this that works very well indeed.

[Vanyel]

I have been using PopUp Killer (link is in an earlier post) for several months now, and I love it! It is a great program that can remember what are popups that you don't want and can also be told to ignore certain popups. Just put it in Safe Mode so it will ask you about new popups if you think you might want to see some.

[Rockmotteller]

Damn! I should have realized that people would develop pop-up blockers, but it never occured to me. I've been cussing the damn pop-ups on certain sites for months. I'll definitely give PopUp Killer or Killad a try! Thanks.

[leander]

This is the greatest site I have ever found to stop pop-ups.

Not that I would ever surf porn sites, but when I happen upon some naughty sites, I just double click this puppy and no more pop-ups. Plus, it shows when you are stopping those damn poppers.

It sits in the toolbar quietly until you, ahem, need it. It's the greatest thing since, well, porn frankly.

[Vanyel]

Originally posted by leander
Plus, it shows when you are stopping those damn poppers.
...
It sits in the toolbar quietly until you, ahem, need it.

PopUp Killer does those things too, and it flashes its tray icon when it kills popups. I love it because you can start off with a list of known popups and add your own to their online database. It is the greatest program, and it completely free! If you need somthing to get rid of popups, this is the program for you!

[Joyfulgirl]

Originally posted by The Great Gazoo
<snip>
You will never win Publisher's Sweepstakes. Throw it away!!

Thank you.

Yeah, just throw that away. Yup, just right in the trash there. No, don't read the envelope. You didn't win, it's just a gimmick. Right in the trash with the other junk mail... excellent.

^{Hehe, suckers! More money for me.}

[Cheesesteak]

Do these popup killers only kill pop up ads? Because one time, I was surfing a porn site _{research purposes only, *cough*} and the thing took over my browser, in addition to popups, it added bookmarks and changed my homepage. Very scary when my roomate started up the browser and was greeted with some nasty porn.


From then on, if I'm anywhere near a porn site _{you know, for research} I put active scripting on a prompt level, instead of enabled. I can put my favorite sites in a "trusted" list and scripts will run fine only at those sites.

[Crusoe]

Pop-up killers normally only kill pop-ups (the one I have, POW!, works by automatically closing any window with a particular text string in the IE title bar).

I'm sure there are settings in most browsers for disabling the scripts that change bookmarks and so on. I avoid all of that by using some of the Internet Security options supplied with Norton -- if anything attempts to change my bookmarks or homepage, it pops-up a warning and allows me to kill the browser.

[Lolo]

Originally posted by Homebrew
The source of my joke was less your opposition to religion and more about your intransigence in threads about God and religion.

yes, there is no gray. only black and white.

[cls]

Cheesesteak:

Sites that change your start page and Favorites usually use the security vulnerability described at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...n/MS00-075.asp

This page also has information on patching that hole.

[Kamandi]

Originally posted by Lolo

yes, there is no gray. only black and white.

Hey, why don't you guys start your own damned thread? We're trying to talk about toaster pastries, here!