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Title: Pop ups
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 30, 2006, 07:31:59 PM

Why do these things even exist?

Do you know of or have heard of ANYONE ever buying something because of an ad they saw in a popup?
I know I dont.
Actually anyone I've ever known who has surfed the net have immediately developed a hatred of these things the first time they have encountered them.

So why do they even have them?
Why would web sites even allow them?
And why the hell isn't there a law against them?

Title: Pop ups
Post by: midnight Target on January 30, 2006, 07:33:28 PM

Andy Rooney? Is that you?

Title: Pop ups
Post by: Meatwad on January 30, 2006, 07:35:35 PM

Only thing I can see about them is you sign up for one of them programs that you get a few cents everytime someone clicks on a certain link.


Take that link and code it into your webpage to where everytime someone visits, that window pops up and opens that link automatically, free few pennies foe the site master.  After a while it adds up if you have enough visitors


I think thats how those pay to click programs work

Title: Pop ups
Post by: Estes on January 30, 2006, 08:05:33 PM

Too bad they don't get paid everytime someone clicks the X. They would be billionaires.

Title: Pop ups
Post by: Sandman on January 30, 2006, 10:40:26 PM

Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) and Adblock (http://adblock.mozdev.org/) are your friends.

Title: Pop ups
Post by: StSanta on January 30, 2006, 11:56:17 PM

They get paid extra per click.

The art of banners in whatever form (integrated, popup, popunder, nag) is an exquisite one ine which ever inventive webmasters come up with more and better ways to screw their customers and visitors.

Having a high display/click ratio is a good way of attracting advertisers. Failing that, mass volume should put food on your table.

Well, not really, but hey it is a reeeeeaaally nice idea, because people just keep coming back to virus infected sites riddled with popups right?

Title: Pop ups
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 31, 2006, 12:20:09 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Sandman
Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) and Adblock (http://adblock.mozdev.org/) are your friends.

LOL I have both. Occasionally Im on AOHELL and even there its not that much a problem with their popup blocker though on those sites that sends out what seems like a million popups a few sometimes get through (not all pron sites either)

Most of my websurfing is done through Firefox with adblock. for exactly that reason.

I this case I was using AOHELL and clicked on a link someone posted in another thread Now if you use AOHELL their popupblocker makes a little popping noise whenever a popup is blocked. Thus my comment there about it sounding like a popcorn machine
Anyway that happened and I just got to thinking about it

Title: Pop ups
Post by: Saintaw on January 31, 2006, 07:00:54 AM

Popups still work. There's a workaround to all those popup blockers (no, I'm not sharing :p)... if it wouldn't work it would be gone by now.

Even if 1 user on 3000 click once/day, it's still worth it.