# Fuck............................... Off!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 21, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012 "2003-04-21T12:02:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/1 "2003-04-21T12:02:56Z")
GET THE FUCKING MESSAGE FUCKINGWANKERBASTARDPOPUPOWNERS!!!
IFUCKINGCLOSETHEFUCKINGTHINGSBEFOREYOURWANKINGSHITTYMESSAGEAPPEARSOK?
CLICKALINK…STUPIDANGELFIREPOPUPCLOSEITCLICKALINK… STUPIDANGELFIREPOPUPCLOSEITCLICKALINK… STUPIDANGELFIREPOPUPCLOSEITCLICKALINK… STUPIDANGELFIREPOPUP!!!
ARRRGGGGGHHH!!!
(venting over. Thankyou Barbque Pit for letting me do that. ahhhh)
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/2 "2003-04-21T12:05:24Z")
Oh dear. I apologise if that post stretching sentence messes with people’s browsers.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/3 "2003-04-21T12:11:28Z")
Brace yourselves for more venting folks - I have just switched sites. Now I am getting geocities popups every time I click a link.
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/4 "2003-04-21T12:15:28Z")
Got a pop-up killer prog, **Lobsang**? Mine works with Angelfire and Geocities.
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/5 "2003-04-21T12:17:27Z")
Oh, and bravo on th’ rant – describes what goes through _my_ head when I meet a wall of those perishing ads …
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/6 "2003-04-21T13:23:25Z")
ACK! STRETCH MARKS!
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### Author:  [@Madame\_Zelda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madame_Zelda)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/7 "2003-04-21T13:47:24Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \*
> \*\*ACK! STRETCH MARKS! \*\*
Now, THAT was freakin’ funny!! 😛
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### Author:  [@NutWrench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutWrench)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/8 "2003-04-21T14:34:25Z")
[WebWasher](http://www.webwasher.com/client/download/private_use/windows/index.html?lang=de_EN) is very nice.
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### Author:  [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/9 "2003-04-21T14:58:01Z")
/Hi-jack
**NutWrench** , I just checked out that link, whats (http) and (ftp) mean ?
Will it work for those baloon pop-ups like: _“there’s an update for Mshield.”_
Is it similar to Ad-Aware?
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### Author:  [@Consuela\_Bobuela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Consuela_Bobuela)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/10 "2003-04-21T21:12:53Z")
If you have Windows XP or 2000 [this page](http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-300) will stop the pop ups. Just follow the directions and it should work, it got rid of all the damned infernal ads I was getting every 5 minutes.
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/11 "2003-04-21T21:15:57Z")
Well I don’t think they are that bad. Of course I work for X-10, but still.
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### Author:  [@stypticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stypticus)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/12 "2003-04-21T22:54:29Z")
Or download a browser that lets you control popups. Opera works nicely for me on Windows, and Mozilla on Linux.
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### Author:  [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/13 "2003-04-22T04:07:36Z")
Or even Mozilla on Windows, or Opera on Linux.
Basically, anything but MSIE.
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### Author:  [@stypticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stypticus)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/14 "2003-04-22T04:54:22Z")
Er, yes. Just because I use them in that order doesn’t mean you have to.
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### Author:  [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/15 "2003-04-22T05:13:12Z")
You need the Proximitrion, found[here](http://www.proxomitron.org/)
It works great with killing ads.
🙂
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/16 "2003-04-22T06:14:36Z")
Popups? What are they?
- F12
- Refuse Popups
Thank you very much Opera.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/17 "2003-04-22T13:32:51Z")
You still get popups? How very 20th Century!
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### Author:  [@Mort\_Furd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mort_Furd)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/18 "2003-04-22T13:54:51Z")
Tell 'em, folks. Dump MSIE and use a real browser instead a camouflaged security hole.
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### Author:  [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/19 "2003-04-22T14:21:28Z")
I dont get _Ad_ pop-ups, I’m still wondering aboot stopping those infernal baloon pop-ups that read :\* “XX is now connected”\* when I dial-up. Or _“Downloads are now ready for Mshield”_
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### Author:  [@chorizo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorizo)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off/170012/20 "2003-04-22T14:41:00Z")
I can’t believe that pop-up ads still exist. I also can’t believe that people still have to deal with them.
I’ve been using Mozilla for so long that I had forgotten all about them. I haven’t seen one in years. Even if you still want to/have to use IE you can avoid 'em from what I understand - I’ve honestly only used IE to check web site compatibility and to run Windows Update.
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