IMDb, can you remove the goddamn popup that shows up every goddamn page?

The BBQ Pit
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I watched No Way Out the other night, and recoignized the Scott Pritchard character, but I couldn’t remember in which movie I saw him. IMDb to the rescue!

So I go to the IMDb Search page.

Here comes the goddamn popup for Underworld. With sound. “I am a death dealer…”

Annoying, I’m at work, um, working, I don’t want to hear that. Close it, enter “No Way Out.”

Here comes the goddamn popup for Underworld AGAIN. “I am a death dealer…”

GRR!! Close it again, click on Will Patton’s name

Here comes the goddamn popup for Underworld AGAIN. “I am a death dealer…”

Son of a…oh that’s right…he was in Copycat. Go back to view the Trivia…

Here comes the goddamn popup for Underworld FUCKING AGAIN. “I am a death dealer…”

Son of a BITCH!!! Your goddamn website is friggin’ UNUSABLE with that goddamn thing up there! If I’ve visited that page 5 seconds ago and closed the damn thing, that means I don’t want to see it again!! STOP IT!!! First I have to deal with ESPNs’ autoclosing popup annoyance, and now this!

It ain’t easy being me.

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Are you talking about the semi-transparant thing that overlays itself right on top of the stuff you want to see? I hate that.

3

Get the Google Toolbar. I held out until I went looking for a bunch of song lyrics and kept getting 3+ popups per page. I installed it and it’s killed 73 popups in 2 days.

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There are popups on the IMDB?
[/Opera user]

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Thanks for the link GMRyujin! Strangely, it doesn’t seem to be doing it any more…

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Popups? I haven’t seen one of those in years.

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The only thing I like about those Underworld pop-ups on the IMDb is that the Google toolbar can block them. Just before these ads, I was running into the AOL Instant Messenger pop-ups that, for some reason, the Google toolbar didn’t block. And those AIM ads were evil.

AIM pop-up ad blocks the screen.
Click close on the pop-up ad.
Different and slightly smaller AIM pop-up ad appears in lower right corner.
Click close on the pop-up ad.
Jump to new page on the IMDb.
Begin process again.

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There’s no reason anymore for complaining about popups. If you haven’t advanced to using Mozilla or Opera which block them on its own, at least use the Google toolbar in IE.

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And, as we keep mentioning, Netscape 7 has a pop-up blocker too. Works great.

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You took the words right out of my…er…fingertips.

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I downloaded Popup Stopper several years ago and haven’t been bothered since then. I believe you can find it for free at www.panicware.com.

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I’m using Zone Alarm Pro and have it set to block the majority of pop ups.

Including that one, apparently.

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Mozilla here and haven’t seen a pop up ad in months.

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So, hold on. You’re complaining about a free, awesome site supporting itself?

Am I the only one who sees something wrong here?

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Earthlink. ::sigh of bliss::

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Sorry to hijack, but I’ve noticed several people mentioning Google Toolbar. Any way to use with MSN 8, without having to open IE?

Thanks - DESK

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I luvs my Google toolbar. The only things it doesn’t work on are the occasional ads on the Weather Channel site; the annoying kind that appear then go away. I HATE those. But otherwise, I haven’t seen a popup in weeks.

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I doubt it. It’s toolbar specifically within IE.

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I use Free Surfer and haven’t seen a popup since I installed it.

The worst popups are those that make noise.

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He’s not complaining about advertisements, he’s complaining about obnoxious persistent abuses of the internet.