Hate pop-up ads?

[iamaboringperson]

Read this interesting article
They're here for some time yet...

[KennyR]

I use Privoxy, so I don't care.

And decent browsers will block the popups, too.

[Piru]

If you really hate popups, use privoxy :-)

[Calen]

I don't get em here either,  they rate right up there with email spam though, quite annoying but easier dealt with.

[iamaboringperson]

I use Netscape 7.blablabla, it will block about 99% of pop-up's

I just thought it was strange that people actually click on them!

[KennyR]

Maybe they click on them by mistake.

But there are also popups that mislead, like "Your computer may be infected by a virus. Click here for a FREE virus check!" or those bastards that take up the full screen and you can't get rid of them. For people who don't use the internet regularly, these can catch a lot of them out.

[cecilia]

opera also blocks pop ups

[Cass]

You can always use the unregistered version of AWeb, and you get no annoying POPUps ;-)
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[Mike_Amiga]

Safari or Camino block pop-ups, or if you have to use IE find out the keyboard short cuts to close individual windows. Command+W for me.  :hammer:

[Karlos]

If you are mad enough to use IE, adsheild is the uber advert blocker. It blocks scripted popups that use onLoad and delyaed methods alike. I have never seen a single popup when using it.

Lastly preprocesses the HTML before the browser sees it. It filters out (based on a list of partial or full URL specifications you give it) images and flash objects alike.

Since this happens before the browser sees the html, it never even tries to download the blocked content, so its a bit faster too ;-)

Simply telling it to filter stuff like '/ads/', '/bannerads/' etc. removes so much sh!te from pages. Any image that does appear in your page that you don't want to see again, you can just right-click and add to your blocklist (usuially just the path to folder suffices, since blocking individual images is fighting a tide!).

[Cyberus]

What?! Karlos admitted using IE!!!
Burn him, burn him!
No, even better, throw in the nearest river, if he drowns, he is innocent, if he floats....burn him, burn him!

I use Firefly Opbrowsezilla, so I'm obviously a better class of computer user....

[mikeymike]

Firebird, no pop-ups :-)

[Lo]

Firebird, no pop-ups

Exactamundo professor! ;-)

[Karlos]

Cyberus wrote:
What?! Karlos admitted using IE!!!
Burn him, burn him!
No, even better, throw in the nearest river, if he drowns, he is innocent, if he floats....burn him, burn him!

I use Firefly Opbrowsezilla, so I'm obviously a better class of computer user....

I don't recall admitting that :-) It was info for those that do use it ;-)

[Hooligan_DCS]

I myself use POW! which is a nice little tool to get rid off popups.