The Successor To Popunder Ads?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday December 8, 2001 @02:33AM from the testing-your-patience dept.

Croaker writes: "So, apparently, boston.com is trying out these new ads called "Shoshkeles" (the marketeer who came up with that name was on crack, no doubt). The result is an incredibly annoying experience of having crap run around the page you are reading, along with sound. And you thought banner ads sucked. The company responsible for the technology, United Virtualities says these are 'browser driven, platform agnostic, sound enabled, free moving forms that marry total creative license to a whole new level of effectiveness.' Effective in annoying, I guess." The site says "the ads only appear when using an Internet Explorer browser," though. Darn.

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Shoshkeles on Netscape by DaoudaW · 2001-12-08 06:38 · Score: 1, Redundant

I just viewed a Shoshkele on Linux with Netscape 4.75. Of course my success might have something to do with Codeweaver's Crossover Plug-In which I installed several weeks ago.

I've just confirmed success on Konqueror as well. Mozilla m.96 did _not_ work.
Weather.com by craz_student · 2001-12-08 06:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

I have seen these on my former favorite place to check the weather.
Oh joy, it works under Linux :( by djarb · 2001-12-08 07:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

Using Galeon with the Crossover plugin, I too can appreciate the beauty of Shoshkeles...

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