When I took a peak at Opals web site, I clicked on something that kept making porn sites pop up. I couldn’t get rid of them. As soon as I’d “X” one out, 2 more would pop up. I couldn’t get out of them. This really p*ssed me off. Why are they allowed to do that? Even if I wanted to look at 1 porn site doesn’t mean I want 50 more popping up all over my screen.
To make matters worse, they attatched themselves to my “Favorites” section of MS Internet Explorer. How the hell did they do that? I most certainly didn’t want them there? Why are those sites so obnoxious? You click on one and they seem to take over your computer.
Why do they do that? Simple – they want your credit card number, and they figure that there’s a better chance of you signing up if the screens are still there. (When in reality, this increases the chances of you taking a baseball bat to the computer… )
How do they do it? Javascript.
How do you stop it? Disable Javascript in your browser settings.
Yes, this sucks because there are some pages out there that do some pretty cool things with Javascript. Unfortunately, these invasive porn pages aren’t among them.
I guess that depends on the browser you are using. In Netscape, it’s easy to find (on both Mac and PC versions) – Preferences dialog box, on the “Advanced” tab.
On my Mac, I found the option to enable (or disable) scripting for Internet Explorer 4.5. But for IE on my Windows machine, I can’t find an option like that either. Maybe they didn’t include that option in this version. Anybody else know if Windows IE allows Javascript disabling? (I guess I assumed it would, since I’ve always been able to disable it on Netscape).
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