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Posted by slotmachine on 10-20-2001 08:30 PM:

What do you do with popup adds on the web?

They drive me mad; I swat them like flies. And if I ever meet the people behind that X-cam, it won't be pretty.

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Posted by jpessin on 10-20-2001 09:56 PM:

There is a great program called PopUpKiller that automatically closes any pop-up window that is on a "black list." Any new pop-up can easily be added to the list. I especially get a kick out of the explosion sound effect!

Posted by Techie2000 on 10-21-2001 12:44 AM:

there are lots of pop-up killing solutions:

1. AnalogX Pow! (IE only)- http://www.analogx.com

2. Turning off Javascript

3. Adsubtract- http://www.adsubtract.com/

4. MultiZilla (Mozilla Only)- http://multizilla.mozdev.com has an option to kill pop-ups

5. The Proxomitron- http://spywaresucks.org/prox/

Posted by ashmed on 10-21-2001 12:57 AM:

Re: What do you do with popup adds on the web?

quote:
Originally posted by slotmachine
They drive me mad; I swat them like flies. And if I ever meet the people behind that X-cam, it won't be pretty.

So X-Cam pays for advertising on all these 'respectable' websites and then we're forced to view these stupid popups? I swear I've had those x-cam things pop up when i've been at sites like ESPN and CNN.

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Posted by Rob on 10-21-2001 04:34 AM:

I use PopUpKiller too...it works pretty well -- you can download it at shareware.com

Posted by slotmachine on 10-21-2001 05:18 AM:

I had no idea these apps existed! Its payback time....

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Posted by Galley_SimRacer on 10-21-2001 08:45 AM:

I use Net Captor's built-in pop-up killer.
http://www.netcaptor.com/

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Posted by jsbernstein on 10-21-2001 02:59 PM:

Alternative partial solution

As an alternative to pop-up killer software, if it's mainly x10 ads that you get and/or you don't want to install new software to kill pop-ups, x10 will set a cookie in your browser that will disable their pop-under ads for 30 days. Haven't tried it myself, but I remember reading about it a while back. More info at http://x10.com/x10ads.htm

Jeff

Posted by LarryN on 10-21-2001 03:16 PM:

X10 ads...

I went on a email bliz to those people, and the best they could do was to offer a 365 day opt out (which is better than the 30 day one list above). I does work, because all of the sites that I still visit, but would always be plagued with X10 ads, are now X10-free.

I'm still not keen on them being allowed to have a cookie on my machine so that I won't be force fed their unwanted ads...

Here's the 365 day opt out, for those who want it:
http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?...com/x10ads1.htm

quote:
"Although the page this takes you to says 30 days (it's a default page), this will stop the advertising for 1 year at a time.

Regards,

Michael $%*@
X10.com"

Posted by EricG on 10-22-2001 05:26 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Techie2000
there are lots of pop-up killing solutions:

1. AnalogX Pow! (IE only)- http://www.analogx.com

2. Turning off Javascript

3. Adsubtract- http://www.adsubtract.com/

4. MultiZilla (Mozilla Only)- http://multizilla.mozdev.com has an option to kill pop-ups

5. The Proxomitron- http://spywaresucks.org/prox/

I use ATGuard, (The product is now owned by Symantec and called Norton Internet Security - and not as feature rich as AtGuard was but still ok http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/nis_pe/ )

It not only blocks 98% of most Ad's (pop up or otherwise) it also gives you a nice firewall too..

{what's a pop-up ad again..? I forgot, been years since I have seen one}

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Posted by SpeakerCoach on 10-22-2001 01:38 PM:

PopupKiller appl

quote:
Originally posted by ashmed

So X-Cam pays for advertising on all these 'respectable' websites and then we're forced to view these stupid popups? I swear I've had those x-cam things pop up when i've been at sites like ESPN and CNN.

Be careful, it will also close any new "legitimate" windows that you are launching!

Posted by Doggy on 10-22-2001 08:31 PM:

I used x10's unsubscribe button. Now, any suggestion on how to get rid of the american flag popups I keep getting?

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