# On the effectiveness of pop-up advertising

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 4, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694 "2003-02-04T15:25:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694/1 "2003-02-04T15:25:22Z")

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I would like to consign **ROAR** to the deepest, darkest, fetid bubbling pits of hell.

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**Author:** ![InTransit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@InTransit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InTransit)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694/2 "2003-02-04T17:16:35Z")

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PopUp ads only tell me what products to boycott. Yes, Dasani water, that’s you.

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**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694/3 "2003-02-04T17:57:44Z")

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I’m quite happy that I use only slow servers that take so long to open the pop-ups that I can Alt-F4 them before I can see 'em.

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**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694/4 "2003-02-04T19:36:34Z")

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I am with InTransit here. It just is a way of telling me which products to boycott. I use a popupkiller also so whenever they start, they get killed. When running WinXP at home I learned a whole new set to block thanks to the messenger worm for popup ads. Now that was annoying as @#%@#%.

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**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694/5 "2003-02-05T19:24:10Z")

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> \*Originally posted by InTransit \*  
> \*\*PopUp ads only tell me what products to boycott. Yes, Dasani water, that’s you. \*\*

Ditto. 😉

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**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694/6 "2003-02-05T20:00:50Z")

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I get a _very_ satisfied feeling each time my pop-up stopper blinks to let me know its working.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694/7 "2003-02-05T22:30:54Z")

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Can’t we all chip in and pay some hacker to come up with a computer virus that only attacks pop up windows, and then worms its way back to the person who originated that pop up window and eats their hard drive alive?

I will gladly cough up a few bucks to that savior of technology.

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**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694/8 "2003-02-06T12:51:33Z")

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I use Mozilla… what are these ‘pop ups’ of which you speak? 😉

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-effectiveness-of-pop-up-advertising/152694/9 "2003-02-06T19:42:06Z")

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I still laugh every time I get a pop-up ad for a pop-up killer.