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The site http://www.adimpact.com/ tells me "did you see the popup? refresh to see it again". Well, I don't see it. There is no popup. And Adblock marks nothing in red on that site, so the popup just doesn't work. This in SeaMonkey browser.

Same in Vanila Firefox 3.06 with Adblock Plus and Flashblock installed.

Even refreshed the page a few times to see their "unblockable popup".
Fail.

But then again, I've worked with marketing people and that page oozed the kind of BS that is used to appeal to PHB's, weather it works or not is unimportant as long as the managers and marketers are sufficiently impressed with the website.

The site http://www.adimpact.com/ tells me "did you see the popup? refresh to see it again". Well, I don't see it. There is no popup. And Adblock marks nothing in red on that site, so the popup just doesn't work. This in SeaMonkey browser.

Instead, it is about using DHTML to create a floating object within the same window. Have a look here.

Uh no.
Try this URL

http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org/

/me adds "*adimpact.com*" filter to Adblock Plus and clicks link

Nope, pretty sure this is nothing to lose sleep about.

Uh no.
Try this URL

http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org/

adimpact.com now marked as "untrusted" thanks to NoScript.

Thanks!

Sounds like someone is in need of a few extra visitors.

Perhaps in the form of a distributed set of requests - that really shouldn't be denied - for service, but we surely shouldn't attack them.

If the ads are being served from a url different than the original page, just post the domain it's coming from, along with the ip address. We'll just block them in our hosts file. I've got a 10,000+ line hosts file blocking ads and malware sites, and I never see ads, popups, redirects, or anything similar. I only have to add an occasional line to my hosts file once a month or so to block a new ad server, other than that, my surfing is peaceful, non-distracting and much lower in bandwidth use.

example:

An error occurred while loading http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org/:
Could not connect to host www.adimpact.com

Was already in my hosts file, can't even remember putting it in there.

Uh no. Try this URL http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org/

Windows XP, Firefox 3.0.5, Adblock Plus. I have to imagine that this is a pretty standard configuration for a bunch of Slashdoters. I don't even use NoScript.

I visited your link, saw the Slashdot main page, and no pop up. What was I supposed to see, again?

My pop up blocker seems to be working just fine. What is this story even supposed to be about?

Uh no. Try this URL http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org/

Windows XP, Firefox 3.0.5, Adblock Plus. I have to imagine that this is a pretty standard configuration for a bunch of Slashdoters. I don't even use NoScript.

I visited your link, saw the Slashdot main page, and no pop up. What was I supposed to see, again?

My pop up blocker seems to be working just fine. What is this story even supposed to be about?

> Try this URL http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org/

When I clicked this link, the F-Secure Client Security 8.00 protection suite gave me a pop-up window, alerting that active network traffic is trying to modify the Firefox thread running on my computer and asking the end user for a block/allow decision. I clicked Deny.

I try http://www.adimpact.com/ and I don't notice anything, the samples page is not working either (slashdotted?) or maybe noscript is too much for them. Even though their popups are not annoying, I'll encourage my friends to block them in their hosts file because the way they are advertising them as "unblockable popups" sounds way too anti-user to me.

No pop-up for me! Just a "Blocked by Websense" page that says:

This website violates ******** Computing Use Policy.
Reason: The Websense category "Proxy Avoidance" is filtered.
URL: http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org/
Options: If you think this should not be blocked, report it to Cyber Security for review

Maybe I shouldn't try to click through to sites that I'm not familiar with that I know attempt to run scripts while I'm at work... Oops.

http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org as provided by Chrisq (894406) works fine here on opera + privoxy.

Wow, is that a free anonymous proxy?

http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/google.com/

Uh no. Try this URL http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org/