# Fuck you, popups **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 29, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659 "2005-04-29T02:26:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the4thmooncat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce7236/32.png) [@the4thmooncat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the4thmooncat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/1 "2005-04-29T02:26:30Z")
To the person who decided that they would create an innocuous (appearing, at least) site and load it with porn popups: Fuck you, heartily, sideways, with a rusty rake. I had no idea such nasty things were out there… my poor, poor eyes. May the one who invented these pieces of steaming elephant shit be condemned to the hell of infinite popunders on the slowest computer with the slowest internet speed. I need to scrub my eyes out now. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/2 "2005-04-29T02:40:51Z")
Get the [Google Toolbar](http://toolbar.google.com/). It has a popup blocker. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/3 "2005-04-29T02:42:56Z")
Welcome to the internet. Bukkake on the left, scat on the right, and goat.se waaaay the fuck out over there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/4 "2005-04-29T03:27:18Z")
Bukkake to the left of me, goat.se on the right Here I am, stuck in the middle with poo (apologies to Gerry Rafferty, Stealer’s Wheel, and, well, everyone else too) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/5 "2005-04-29T03:27:52Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Get the [Google Toolbar](http://toolbar.google.com/). It has a popup blocker. Even better, Netscape has one built in. So does Firefox. You need a better browser. ---
**Author:** ![the4thmooncat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce7236/32.png) [@the4thmooncat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the4thmooncat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/6 "2005-04-29T03:30:41Z")
\ I do have Firefox. The OP, however, was posted from my mother’s IE-using (but XP, while this one is 98) computer. \ ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/7 "2005-04-29T13:16:10Z")
Or Opera. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/8 "2005-04-29T19:28:38Z")
Fuck you, heartily, sideways, with a rusty rake. You say **this** , and had no idea such nasty things were out there? I’ll bet there’s a popup devoted to THAT, too! I’m just kidding! Yes, I agree. Fuck them. Or don’t. Whichever way they’d be more miserable. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/9 "2005-04-29T21:44:06Z")
Pop-ups are a thing of the past with me since I began patrolling for spyware, adware etc. a couple of years ago. Now, those embedded, animated Flash ads can take a lungbusting hit off a tailpipe. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-popups/301659/10 "2005-04-29T22:45:38Z")
I like using the oldest computer at work. It was installed in 1996 and has been untouched since - _nothing_ the spammers throw at it is understood. I’ve never seen a popup, never seen a Flash animation, nothing. _Wonders if he could install IE4 on his home XP box…_