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The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the open-in-tab-is-a-nice-sidestep dept.

SYFer writes "Shortly after upgrading my Macs to OS X 10.3.8, I noticed that I was getting pop-up ads on Safari. It had been so long since I'd seen a pop-up, I completely forgotten how annoying they can be. I went over to Apple's Support site to see if there was a relationship, but learned that the timing is just a coincidence (even though there's a lot of the usual FUD and flailing of arms in the discussion forums). In fact, it turns out that the pop-up advertisers (what's the proper denigrating term here?) have finally defeated the pop-up blocking functionality found in many browsers. MacFixIt is running a front page article on the topic and says 'Contrary to initial reports, this problem isn't limited to Safari; subsequent reports have noted pop-under ads victimizing a number of browsers that provide pop-up-blocking features, including the latest versions of Safari, FireFox, Mozilla, OmniWeb, and Camino.'"

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  1. Re:correct terminology by Rai · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I believe the late prophet, Bill Hicks, referred to them as "suckers of Satan's cock." That seems fitting.

  2. Re:I don't see a problem here... by shaitand · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No popup there or on another site where the person mentioned popups. Are you guys using windows? I still get zero popups under linux.

  3. Re:nope by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I never said illegal. And there is a huge difference between too much of an asshole to shift your vision five pixels to the left vs not wanting your computer to be hijacked in an endless swarm of popups which prevent the actual content from being viewed.
    If there were a plugin to redirect popups to the page they were launched from, I would use it. Demand for ways of making ads more friendly, as opposed to blocking them completely, seems to be non-existent.
    Of course, I may some day make such an extension myself, but based on public interest in my first attempt at an extension, I apparently suck at writing those :)

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  4. Re:Mod parent up by NickFitz · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Cut the shit asshole. Google has single handededly ignored sites' content in favour of the amount of links to it, and their value according to Google's secret algorithm, thus initiating a whole new wave of link farms and redirects upon an unsuspecting public.

    I was going to mod this down, but there doesn't seem to be a "-1 Ignorant Buffoon"...

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