Author Topic: pop-up ads (Read 2717 times)

tapakeg · « **on:** February 07, 2004, 06:58:25 AM »

Man are they annoying. IE is so annoying to use, if i am typing in the address bar, i get interrupted often by pop-up ads. It is almost unusable. I like Netscape 7.1 because it has a pop-up blocker, but so many sights are designed for IE (it's a microsoft world). I have cleaned cache, cookies, have run ad-aware and a spybot and they are still there.
Is it in my computer? (cookies, spyware, etc.?) or is it in conjunction with the website? (ie.. go to this website, you get this pop-up)

And for the record these are normal, family websites I am talking about.

Tapakeg

beet1e · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2004, 07:05:03 AM »

Tap - do you have a firewall? You should in this day and age... if you get a good one like Zone Alarm Pro from Zone Labs, it will have a built in popup ad zapper. I have Zone Alarm Pro, and I never get a single pop ad these days.

tapakeg · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2004, 07:28:56 AM »

wow, cool. I have the free zone alarm, will look into it

thanks

~~Tapakeg~~

beet1e · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2004, 07:38:41 AM »

Rgr that, Tap. I just had a look at the website, and I am led to believe that you need the PRO version to suppress popups.

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

Kanth · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2004, 07:45:26 AM »

Fer popups

http://toolbar.google.com/

Dingbat · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2004, 09:37:44 AM »

FWIW, XP service pack 2 updates Internet Explorer with a popup blocker...

Chairboy · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2004, 10:10:13 AM »

The Google toolbar popup blocker is super, and it's free.

Pfunk · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2004, 11:16:29 AM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
The Google toolbar popup blocker is super, and it's free.

2nded

stiehl · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2004, 11:38:34 AM »

Yahoo also has a toolbar popup blocker. Haven't had a single one since I installed it.

Mighty1 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 07, 2004, 01:42:44 PM »

We use Google's popup blocker for all our PC here at work.

Works very well.

Makarov9 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2004, 01:45:28 PM »

Make sure you run Ad-Aware every month to get rid of any "behind-the-scenes" installed popups and spyware crap.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Gunslinger · « **Reply #11 on:** February 07, 2004, 01:48:13 PM »

Got a question....if you have a web page that has a link that is designed to initiate a small pop up in a new window does pop up blocker permit this.

Chairboy · « **Reply #12 on:** February 07, 2004, 01:50:23 PM »

Depends on how they do it. Most popup blockers just block javascript initiated popups, but on occasion a user-clicked popup won't work. To get around this, Google toolbar notifies you when it blocks a popup. With that, you can hit a key and click the link again, then it'll bypass the popup blocking.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #13 on:** February 07, 2004, 01:56:51 PM »

thanks chair. my website uses HTML to create a new window and i was allways curious

flakbait · « **Reply #14 on:** February 07, 2004, 11:00:12 PM »

Then again, you could get Firebird from http://www.mozilla.org and have the best of both worlds. Auto pop-up blocker, user-clicked pop-ups work perfectly, loads blindingly fast (both the prog and pages), no "behind the scenes" crap to worry about, and it's free. Though it is a little buggy ATM since it's in BETA. Last time I checked it was v0.7, the same version I'm using now. Works better than Netcrap, and light years better than IE.

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