Piss off, X10 cam and Orbitz!

[August_West]

Go ahead, pop-up at me one more fucking time. Everywhere I go on the internet one of you little monkeys flings your shit in my face. I’ve had enough!

And if someone tells me to disable java, they can piss off too. I need Java enabled. So there.

[Akke]

Try Netcaptor: whenever a nasty popup appears, press F8, and it will never show up again.

It also opens all explorer windows in one screen without cluttering up your taskbar.

[kabbes]

Link to netcaptor?

pan

[kabbes]

Bah - don’t worry. I googled it. Here.

Netcaptor appears to be a browser, rather than an add on or parallel-running program. For those of us who have to use IE (namely because it is work installed) that isn’t much use.

pan

[omni-not]

Interestingly enough, I noticed an Orbitz banner ad on Netcaptor’s main page. Heh, heh, heh.

[Fredge]

*Originally posted by kabbes *
Netcaptor appears to be a browser, rather than an add on or parallel-running program. For those of us who have to use IE (namely because it is work installed) that isn’t much use.

I haven’t tried Netcaptor (yet) and initially I was thinking the same thing as you from the info on their web page, but I did find this which states

NetCaptor can best be described as a custom browser application. NetCaptor is a standalone application that uses services provided by Microsoft Internet Explorer to render and navigate HTML. NetCaptor currently requires Internet Explorer 4/5 to be installed on the client computer in order to function (see this article for more info about NetCaptor and Mozilla/Netscape). NetCaptor runs under Windows 95,98,NT4 and Win2000 and requires that IE is installed (though you don’t have to use it).

So while it may act like a browser, it still requires IE to do it’s rendering. Sounds like a wrapper/extension for IE. Also, if you just use the free version there’s some kind of advertising evidentally.

[Mac_Guffin]

*Originally posted by omni-not *
**Interestingly enough, I noticed an Orbitz banner ad on Netcaptor’s main page. Heh, heh, heh. **

not to mention a god damned X10 pop-under as well.
Akke is a bastard.

[Waverly]

Is it just me, or do these webcam adverts usually feature attractive women while praising the camera’s unobtrusiveness and wireless features? What in the fucking hell are they trying to promote? X10, Make all your perverted voyeuristic fantasies come true.

[bernse]

Pop-up killer works really well too. Either a google search or download.com will come up with it for you.

[August_West]

*Originally posted by Waverly *
**What in the fucking hell are they trying to promote? X10, Make all your perverted voyeuristic fantasies come true. **

Well, you’ve got to admit that’s a pretty good hook.

[Weirddave]

I use Pow! Once you designate a pop up as one you don’t want, it automatically closes it everytime it pops up.

[headshok]

I’ve been using Webwasher with IE 5. Kills popups and banner ads automatically.

[_Uigi]

I do hate the pop-ups. God do I HATE THEM!!! INCLUDING THE DAMNED PURPLE MONKEY (Bonzi must DIE!!!) that must be an AOL rep!!!

On the other hand, the frequency and numbers of nuisances these buggers drop on our screen are mensurated (for the folks that are paying for these moronic ads) and in the end may help contribute to keeping this whole damned thing running on the cheap/essentially free.

If the advertisers figure out they’re being slayed at every pop-up, what does that do to the solvency of the net? Anyone have a guess-timate?

[Cervaise]

I use NoAds. Works like a charm.

[Akke]

particlewill:

not to mention a god damned X10 pop-under as well.

Akke is a bastard.

Maybe, but I didn’t give you the link

It’s still a good browser though.

[friedo]

*Originally posted by August West *
I need Java enabled. So there.

Perhaps. But you probably don’t need Javascript enables.

Or if you do, try getting a browser that lets you enable it conditionally on visiting specific sites where it’s needed.

[Mac_Guffin]

By gods,** Akke** you are right!

kabbesis a bastard!

For some reason, Webwasher isn’t killing the x10 popunders for me. I wonder why…

[Jophiel]

What in the fucking hell are they trying to promote? X10, Make all your perverted voyeuristic fantasies come true

Actually, the ads USED to say things like “Living room, dining room… bedroom” but they changed them rather quickly. They do keep the token woman though. Because, um, there’s a lot of attractive women hanging out in my garage and patio. When I first saw the ad, I was thinking “What the hell are they trying to sell here??” I guess I wasn’t the only one, because the bedroom ads didn’t last long.

[Una_Persson]

(cough) Put them in your hosts. file as 127.0.0.1 (cough)

[teela_brown]

I was listening to NPR this morning and heard a segment about Pop-ups and Pop-Unders and it pissed me off so much I wanted to start a rant thread, but I see y’all are here ahead of me.

I don’t think I’m hijacking when I summarize here what the article mentioned. It said that because of the economic downturn, websites are panicking and turning to more aggressive methods to sell. They borrowed this specific strategy from the porn sites that send you unwanted porn Pop-Ups. Web advertisers were interviewed during this segment, and they said right out that they were not interested in your affection, they just want your attention. One advertiser specifically said that they didn’t care if they pissed off a bunch of people, they had sold hundreds of those imbecile X-10 cameras in the L.A. area alone, and that the camera’s website had become the fourth most visited website on the 'net.

Here we see the inner workings of the wonderful world of marketing, a world where the only morality is increased sales.

sdimbert has a thread in GQ which also has many helpful hints on how to cleanse your computer of this scourge.