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FTC Bars Popup Backdoor Ads
zanderredux was one of several readers to note that the FTC has banned backdoor popups. This is the result of the D Squared case that we've heard a bit about in the past. The case also restricted them from sending IM ads as well.
This is really going to negatively affect my sex life. Will the FTC please get out of my bedroom, and keep their laws off my body while they're at it?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I was one of the team leaders on the Windows NT project, in fact my team was in charge of the Messenger service.
Nothing like watching an entire department power cycle their machine because they received
"An error has occured at 0x8000000C. Please reboot your system."
My computer is broadcasting an IP address, but without ads how will I be able to stop this?
Just a question, how do you stop and punish them? Especially if they are in a country that doesn't consent to our laws? "If you outlaw popups/unders, then only outlaws will use em." Does that mean that these adds will fall in the same realm as guns? Will they have to pre-register in order to use them? What if they get a concealed pupunder permit? And will M$ release an addblocking toolbar for messenger? Later
"claiming it could send pop-ups to as many as 135,000 internet addresses each hour." Actually D squared = 250,000
A bunch of Tech Stuff
How am I going to know if I won a 3 free day trip to Hawaii for being the 82,711,365th visitor?
Not to mention X-10 softcore.
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I bought my last back door from a pop-up add, and I have to say that its a little ripper.. swinging exit for the minature snaushzer and everything.
What I need now is a match to hang at the front of the house. So I'm just waiting for a decent front-door to popup...
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>Although marketers regard pop-ups as one of the most effective ways of advertising online, many surfers find them hugely annoying.
many people find that shoving a rather large stick with nails in it shoved up the bum of said marketers a very effective way of advertising their dislike of popups. although 99 out of a 100 marketers disagree, I condone this practice.
now where's me nails and hammer...
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
Or just download XP Service Pack 2, released yesterday, which will do this for you ;)
(BTW, I'm no Microsoft fanboy. However, I do think SP2 is a positive step forward for platform with regards to security).
Pfft... I'm not going to get excited until Netcraft confirms it.
mostly useless? how else do you tell users your Microsoft Exchange server has crashed (again)? E-mail?
Now if we could just get spammers to obey the law...that would be progress.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
The only reason advertisers didn't hire someone to follow you around with a bullhorn was the expense. Then the internet was invented, and along with it, the pop-up ad...
if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence / freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
Now if they could just get rid of these 30 second pop-up ads that appear on my TV 4 or 5 at a time. Like, I'll be watching a movie, it'll get to a really good part, and then BAM!, 6 pop-ads about feminine products, male enhancement pills, etc.
The worst part is they seem to get more agressive towards the end of the movie. Once I saw like 15 pop-up ads before the cliff hanger ending last scene. When is the FTC going to outlaw this madness!?
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
This should be just as effective.
You're still using bubble farts? Merge farts or quick farts are way faster.
"'[Ads are] an annoyance you have to deal with in a free society,' lawyer Anthony J. Dain is quoted as saying."
Unfortunately, so are lawyers.
Most people view their computers with the same regard they have for their refridgerators and microwaves. You turn it on and you press the buttons. Not only should they not have to think about it, it would never even occur to the average person to do so.
OS's should ship set to auto-update, and people smart enough to not like that can turn it off.
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Ads were "an annoyance you have to deal with in a free society," lawyer Anthony J. Dain is quoted as saying.
So, if I walk into a courtroom during this lawyer's next litigation and start shouting out an advertisement for something, the judge is going to see it as "an annoyance you have to deal with in a free society". I don't think so.