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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. Re:Not only ads... by flynt · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So most of the wimen rely

    Please tell me that you don't really think "women" is spelled "wimen".

  2. Permanent retinal spam by Asikaa · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Combine the paint-image-on-your-retina laser systems and pop-up firmware downloads...

    Access retinal laser subsystem set laser_power==(laserpower*100); set boot_dialogue=="www.bigpenis.com - The natural way to male enhancement"; end

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    Come in, twenty-seventy-seventy, your time is up.

  3. Re:a followup link by ichimunki · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I think someone should hack /. and give everybody 50 karma points, so there'd be no more karma whoring...

    Like it's really that hard to get to 50.

    Here's how I can get several points just from this story: "Thankfully I run [Mozilla|Galeon|Konqueror|Lynx] on [Linux|*BSD|Atari 800], so these [twerps|cakeholes|spammers] can go die for all I care. JavaScript is the Devil's own creation. If I wanted to download your software I'd download your software! Imminent end of usable web predicted!

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