Pop-up ads for pop-up killer software?

The BBQ Pit
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I’m tired. I’m bored. I’m surfing. I get a pop-up ad for a pop-up killing software program.

The pop-up does this shamelessly. It is a plug. It makes no effort to even comment on the two-faced silliness of using pop-ups to advertise their pop-up killing software. Can they not see the hypocrisy?

It reminds me of the old gag where the poor victim gets a brick thrown through his front window with a note attached advertising a store selling window panes.

I’m too tired to get really worked up about it, though. I can’t even remember the name of the website for the aforementioned advertiser. I wasn’t even able to work in some clever swearing like ‘asshat’. This is probably the worst pit rant ever.

Meh.

I love you all.

-Ashley

2

I don’t know. I think it’s quite clever, really. Point out what you hate to remind you to do something about it. Presumably their product would kill their own pop-ups too.

3

Not so much advertising as a protection racket, isn’t it?

Don’t like this - well give us money to stop it happening.

Wish I’d thought of it.

4

I thought most pop up stopper programs were free anyway?

5

Ey - nice computer. Shame if anything were to, uh, HAPPEN to it . . .

6

Anybody else notice the OP had The Mark of the Beast?

Coincidence? I think not! :eek:

7

I suspect the company is fully aware of the irony of its advertising. It does sound like a Junior Birdman attempt at the protection racket.

BTW - The Mozilla v1.0 browser has built-in pop-up protection.

8

As does Opera, which I myself absolutely love. I’ve used various versions of IE, Netscape and even tried Mozilla, but my favorite is definitely Opera.

(Version 6 does show advertising, but in a very unobtrusive manner).

9

So does iCab, a neat german Mac browser that also has HTML verification. It also blocks banner ads.

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It’s perfect audience targeting.

The people who already have your product aren’t annoyed by your ads, and the people who need your product are, in one step, reminded that they need it and shown where to get it.