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What do you do with web popup ads? You do not have permission to vote on this poll.
Swat them like mosquitos carrying the West Nile virus	36	97.30%
Enrich my online experience by following every link	0	0%
What's a popup add?	1	2.70%
Total:	37 votes	100%

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slotmachine
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Registered: Jun 2001
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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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10-20-2001 08:30 PM

jpessin
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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Chicago
Posts: 10

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!

10-20-2001 09:56 PM

Techie2000
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Registered: Aug 2001
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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/

10-21-2001 12:44 AM

ashmed
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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: San Diego, California
Posts: 441

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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10-21-2001 12:57 AM

Rob
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Registered: Sep 1999
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I use PopUpKiller too...it works pretty well -- you can download it at shareware.com

10-21-2001 04:34 AM

slotmachine
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Registered: Jun 2001
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I had no idea these apps existed! Its payback time....

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10-21-2001 05:18 AM

Galley_SimRacer
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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 172

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

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10-21-2001 08:45 AM

jsbernstein
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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 33

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

10-21-2001 02:59 PM

LarryN
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Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Pembroke,MA
Posts: 307

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"

10-21-2001 03:16 PM

EricG
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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Alive and well on VisorCentral.com
Posts: 861

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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Last edited by EricG on 10-22-2001 at 05:36 AM

10-22-2001 05:26 AM

SpeakerCoach
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Registered: Sep 2000
Location:
Posts: 142

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!