# Did Cecil Sell Us Out? (SDMB Pop-Ups?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-cecil-sell-us-out-sdmb-pop-ups/264521>\
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**Created:** [September 15, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-cecil-sell-us-out-sdmb-pop-ups/264521 "2004-09-15T05:34:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-cecil-sell-us-out-sdmb-pop-ups/264521/1 "2004-09-15T05:34:28Z")

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Everytime I submit a question to post, a pop-up comes up first despite my active pop-up blocker (which has been very, very good to me). What’s the deal? Is this like what [Monster.com](http://Monster.com) and the like have gone to doing?

Sure to see another pop-up pop up… 😉

- Jinx

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**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-cecil-sell-us-out-sdmb-pop-ups/264521/2 "2004-09-15T05:41:27Z")

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You almost certainly have spyware or Adware on your system. The SDMB has no popups that I’m aware of.

Check the “Computer problems” sticky in GQ.

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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-cecil-sell-us-out-sdmb-pop-ups/264521/3 "2004-09-15T10:25:57Z")

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The SDMB doesn’t have _any_ pop ups.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-cecil-sell-us-out-sdmb-pop-ups/264521/4 "2004-09-16T05:09:09Z")

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We do not have any popups on our system.

We DO have Double-Click; it runs our ad system. It is quite possible that your system is being triggered by Double Click to get popups (though not generated by our site.

Please look at one of the programs such as Ad-Aware to rid yourself of this problem.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator