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Prince of Pop-ups
Ric writes "From the article lead paragraph: 'If you hate pop-up ads, you might blame Brian Shuster. A long-time figure in the Internet pornography world, Shuster recently received a patent for the ad format and is now looking to make some money off the sites that use it. And that's just the beginning - Shuster has a long list of pending patents, including one for pop-up audio ads that cannot be turned off.'"
God Bless Mozilla .. no more pop-ups. Hopefully it will still block those audio pop-ups "that can't be turned off."
Don't be. It's not his fault. He didn't "create" anything. GeoCities deployed the first pop-up ad in mid 1997. I know this because I did, and I'm currently looking at the source code I wrote to do it (scheduling, etc.). Keep in mind this was during a time when internet companies couldn't figure out how to make a profit... oh wait, never mind that last point. I'll still be happy to see 'em go.
A lot of sites (like the once really cool but now really pathetic Vintage Gaming Network) now block downloads or forum access or other features if you block popups.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Can you give an example? I'd like to try it with mozilla to see how it behaves there. Since I did
user_pref("capability.policy.default.windowinterna l.open", "noAccess");
user_pref("capability.policy.popupsites.windowinte rnal.open", "noAccess");
I have not seen a single popup.
PS: of course, there are no spaces in the quoted strings above, /. put the spaces there.
Honestly, if you're that worried about popups go download a copy of Proxomitron. Proxomitron does a very good job, and its free.
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Thats fine, so you allow popups for the 10 seconds it takes to start the download. In opera it's as easy as pressing F12, in other browsers like mozilla you can set it to allow popups for specific sites.
Although a pain in the ass, you can make it so you don't lose any fuctionality of sites that require popups.
Do you Gentoo!?
no need, mozilla has builtin support for disabling popups (as does opera)
KazaaLite offers a supertrick host file full of ad servers that you can merge with your existing host file. You could also take this data and merge it with Mozilla's blocking option.
And the best thing about the Google ads is that unlike 99+% of advertising they are actually usefull and something that I can use to find a product I want.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Assuming you live in the United States, you should be very careful talking about things like this. Jim Bell is in prison right now for, in part, proposing a system to do almost exactly what you're saying. He even solved the "who will administer it" problem. I won't link to it, but Google for "Assassination Politics".
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