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Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: JoeDirt on February 04, 2002, 12:23:28 PM

:mad: i am SICK of pop ups......NO ONE reads them! all they do is get in your way. and everyone knows that!! so why do web sites have them??:confused: :mad:

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
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Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: Staga on February 04, 2002, 01:03:46 PM

http://www.popup-killer.com/

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: funkedup on February 04, 2002, 01:11:59 PM

I don't click on them and don't know anybody who does.  But they keep making more ads, so there must be somebody out there clicking on them.  Who is it?  AOL users?  Mac users?  They must be stopped!!!

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: AKDejaVu on February 04, 2002, 01:22:41 PM

I concur... but I also feel the same way about junkmail and telephone solicitors... both things that have endured for ages.

One funny sidenote...

In the Portland area, a telephone provider (QWest) announced that they intended to release telephone information for solication use in the form of a database.  If you did not want to be on that database, you needed to notify them.  Response was so immediate and overwhelming that they decided that releasing the database was probably a bad idea and scrapped the whole thing.

AKDejaVu

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: easymo on February 04, 2002, 01:40:55 PM

I tried many pop up stoppers. None worked, really. I got the opera browser, it has a stopper built into it. I like it much better than IE in just about every other way to boot.

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: Tumor on February 04, 2002, 02:54:58 PM

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Originally posted by easymo
I tried many pop up stoppers. None worked, really. I got the opera browser, it has a stopper built into it. I like it much better than IE in just about every other way to boot.

This works!  You have to do a little work yourself by inputing the pop-ups but after you've populated the database your good to go.

http://www.analogx.com/files/powi.exe

analogx has lots of other free goodies that work real good too.  Oh, and it's all free.  The guy who does this stuff has been on techtv (screensavers/callforhelp) a number of times.  Good stuff.

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: easymo on February 04, 2002, 03:56:51 PM

Tried the ana x thing. helped. Did'nt stop the flood on some pages though.

Title: opera...
Post by: Octavius on February 04, 2002, 04:22:53 PM

cc, i use opera also, great browser

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: AKIron on February 04, 2002, 05:28:19 PM

I tried popup killer a while back but like popup stopper better. They have a free version but the pro version is better, 15 day free trial then $19.95.

Panicware (http://www.panicware.com)

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: bloom25 on February 04, 2002, 06:13:55 PM

Try opera, http://www.opera.com .  It's a faster browser, and has a quick preference to block pop-ups.

It's only 10.7 MB, and definately worth a try.

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
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Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: Tumor on February 04, 2002, 11:22:25 PM

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Originally posted by easymo
Tried the ana x thing. helped. Did'nt stop the flood on some pages though.

Thats because you have to endure the flood at least once hehe.  let the "flood" go until it seems to have stopped, then click on the POW icon in the system tray (might be right-click).  You then get a small window that show's every popup that is currently on your screen...you double click on each one you want to block and then click "done" and they will disappear.

Every time you get a pop-up, you'll have to add it to the database as explained above, but...after you block it once, it's done for good.

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: easymo on February 05, 2002, 01:10:12 AM

Thats because you have to endure the flood at least once.

No I dont:)

I am a very receant convert. 3 days. I wish I had dl opera the first time I ever turned one of these things on.

  BTW. I am cheap, so I use the freebie version. Took me a few, but  figured out how to get rid of the ads. F11 then alt+spacebar then x. Mouse works different with opera. Right click and hold then left click, gos back to last page. opposite go's foward a page. Faster and more intuitive than the arrows.

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: mrsid2 on February 05, 2002, 04:11:17 AM

Just stop surfing them pr0n sites..

I counter 1-2 popups daily if I surf much.. That's nothing.
And if a popup kills you while youre playing AH its your own fault, you should kill all internet apps from background from taking bandwith / cpu from the game. No wonder people warp around with 20 flashing banners updating constantly with a 56k modem line.

Title: Down With Pop Ups!!!!!!!!
Post by: Tumor on February 05, 2002, 11:31:24 PM

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Originally posted by mrsid2
Just stop surfing them pr0n sites..

...why have a computer hooked up to the internet then?? ;)