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A New Low for Web Advertisers: Pop-Up Downloads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the measuring-new-lows-jinxes-us-all dept.

rizzmanix writes: "I thougt it was strange that I had been getting a lot of pop-up download prompts for the Gator software as I browsed around the web in the recent days. Why were all these sites requiring this Gator thing I wondered? Well I wonder no more... as apparently advertisers hit a new low by running 'pop-up downloads' instead of pop-up ads. Sneaky, underhanded, nasty and vile."

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  1. PR0N by rbeattie · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've seen this thing before on pr0n sites... once again they're leading the way on the web. I never thought that traditional advertisers would stoop this low, though. I wonder what's next?

    -Russ

    Ooh, wait. What I meant was my FRIENDS have seen stuff like this and told me about it. Wait, I don't have friends that look at pr0n either... umm. I read about this sort of thing, yeah. That's it...

    --
    Me
  2. Coming soon on Slashdot: by Vic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pretty soon we'll see pop-ups that say:

    Do you wish to install this file? YES / NO

    If yes, please do the following:
    - Download file and save to /tmp
    - cd /tmp
    - tar xvzf slashpopup.tar.gz
    - cd slashpopup
    - ./configure (For help with options, do ./configure --help)
    - make
    - su
    - make install
    ....Finished!