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End Run Around Pop-up Blockers
An anonymous reader writes "The pop-up arms race continues, cnet has this article on how advertisers are responding to pop-up blockers." Can't wait for a full page of javascripted user-initiated pop-ups.
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Silence! Google can do no evil.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
But I use Links!
We got the XP sp2 beta at work. This is the convo between one of my friends who is a real pro-Microsoft fanatic and I (his name has been changed but he knows who he is):
Him: "Wow, Colin! Look how good this popup blocker is! Nothing's getting through!"
Me: "That's great, Schmuck. Now we won't have professors bitching at us about them."
Him: "So does that mean you'll move back to Internet Explorer from Firefox since that was your main reason for switching?"
Me: "Hell no. Firefox is impervious. Popup problems? What popup problems?" *chuckles*
Him: "Well, sp2's popup blocker is impervious, too!" *gets a popup* "FUCK!"
Me: *draws on board: FIREFOX >> YOU*
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
You're right, some of us are M$ hating MAC Zealots! haha ;)
Mod parent -1 FREELOADER!
Bender: "What-ups?"
Fry: "Pop-ups!"
Bender: "Pop-whats?"
Fry: "Pop-ups!"
Bender: "What-whats?"
Mac. Mozilla. Scripts turned off. Flash not installed. Ctrl-click, 'Block images from this server' on annoying banners. End result: great internet experience. Maybe the other 99% of users will get this as well when IE finally supports pop-up blocking...
You must think in Russian.
Me: *draws on board: FIREFOX >> YOU*
...Firefox shifts your friend to the right?
Since annoyance is clearly a working marketting tool (why else would Gilbert Gotfried still be popular on commercials?) and SPAM shows no signs of being slowed and clearly, as the article shows, pop-ups are getting increasingly more aggressive, I have decided to create my own more effective marketting technique.
I plan to hire thousands of people to pass out hand-bills door-to-door. What? Not new? Oh yes it is... Studies show that prime-time for this activity is when people are home! So part of the plan is to knock on their doors during dinner time. Still not new? I'm not done... After they answer the door, he will push his way into your home and punch you in the face, change the channel on your TV to always come up to our commercials, change the speed dials on your phone while we are putting a bug in it so we know who you are calling, and then tape the handbill to your face with duct tape so you can't miss seeing it.
We think that will be enough to make people want to buy our stuff...
Would the ones that promote disabling features really want to go back to the crappy featureless, tool-less, mostly text internet that we had only 7 or 8 years ago?
Yes please!
with only eight filters I see less than one ad a week.
/(*)/, I never see an ad!
Pffft. With only ONE filter
Hey, slashdot doesn't seem to have any articles today. Must be a slow news day.
You heard it here first, folks. Pop-ups and spam cause cancer!
"If a user has specifically installed software in order not to see popups, why do advertisers think they will be inclined to click them if they do somehow get through?"
Any door-to-door salesman would tell you the folks with "No Salesman" signs on their front doors are almost always the easiest to sell.
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