A New Low for Web Advertisers: Pop-Up Downloads

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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[GnomeKing]

Why is it that some people always try to get karma just for posting clickable links?

Everyone should install it!!

[nolife]

The more the advertisers concentrate on less knowledgeable consumer, the longer I can get access to content for free.
Eventually even the questionable advertisers will figure out that it just doesn't work. People only have $x to spend a month.
I gave an in-law a computer to get on the internet about a year ago. I saw it the other day and WOW.. HD is full, desktop completely full of icons, task bar stretches the length of the screen, pop-ups,downs,overs,unders,arounds, computer automatically dials out at random and connects to casino and porn sites, junk email, even has active desktop enabled with random advertisements on the screen when he first gets into windows. All I wanted to do was to check my ISP's web mail, I decided not to after seeing all that.
It's truely sad and even scary that people accept these practices as a normal part of browsing the internet and using a computer.

WHY?

[TheAwfulTruth]

Why oh why aren't you and everyone else on /. using WebWasher?!?!? I haven't seen an ad, pop-up, pop-under or pop-download in months!