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The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad
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.'"
it turns out that the pop-up advertisers (what's the proper denigrating term here?)
Poppers? Plippers? Flippers? Flappers? Wippers? Snappers?
Sorry, kinda high on Red Bull right now.
I enjoy large posteriors and I cannot prevaricate.
...am I lucky.
Lynx is, and continues to be, the ultimate browser for ad-less internet browsing.
Take that, 21st century!
the HREF line should readbasically, produces popups whenver you click on a link
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So....how long before firefox develops a popup blocker blocker blocker?
I think I just confused myself. Yikes.
I'm coming too. I'll go get my shotgun.
My Greatest Heist - Muisc partly inspired by the unbeatable Qwantz
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Oh, you naive web-user. They already know that nobody likes pop-ups, at this point they're just doing it out of spite.
My Greatest Heist - Muisc partly inspired by the unbeatable Qwantz
So....how long before firefox develops a popup blocker blocker blocker?
Blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, pop-up, pop-up
Blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, blocker, ARGH! Spam! A spam!
(apologies to weebl)
Jimmy Carter reads Drudge Report?
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RIGHT! lets get those fuckers. you get the guns and I'll get the fire-bombs. Now, who knows where these bastards live?
That's not a low id ... mine is a low id :-)
if I kick you out of my house, stay there, please.
So Popup Ads are like Jehovah Witnesses?
Next you can demonstrate how to get +15 karma in 2 minutes
Oh wait...
Considering most of the stories there get posted to /. too, I really see no reason to ever visit MacSlash again.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
You'd figure these kids would know what a lowid looked like by now..
:-)
Not another one of these threads
Better yet, switch to a text-only browser!
What good is a shotgun going to do?
He uses a Compy.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Remember that these are the same people who think you want Viagra so badly that they should misspell it to get around your misguided spam filters, or that giving their messages subject lines like "Bobby, if you ever do that again I will kill you," will increase the chances that you'll buy their farm animal porn.
> Your ID is not low.
:D
Neither is yours, you newbie!
Teach me to wait to sign up for an account...
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"why cant we do the same thing?"
Just a wild guess here, but possibly because they're not necessarily copying anything and the blocking features aren't necessarily protecting intellectual property.
DMCA has nothing to do with it. I'm personally more in favor of hunting these fuckers down and torturing them with pliers, myself.
I rather think slashdot should make money by selling access to knowledge. Every discussion gets posts by technical experts that would be otherwise highly paid for their opinions, and built-in moderation system filters most of the noise. They could build a knowledge base of posts and sell access to search. If each user also indicates weather he/she is available for employment or consulting, slashdot can also take some referral fee from such transactions.
"I had to, my mouth was a broken JPEG!"
I write code.
When you lie down with pigs...
Not another one of these threads :-)
Yep, 'fraid so.
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Ploppers
Kinda like how we killed spam by boycotting products that were advertised in unsoliciated emails? Yea, that worked great!
Yes, it did block the popups, but plastered across the front page:
"COMING TOMORROW: HOW SPYWARE WORKS!!"
-- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
You must look stupid. You spend all that time walking around a supermarket gathering what you want to buy, only to dump it when you finally notice that the checkouts (which is where you entered the store in the first place) have long queues?!
If, like me, you play first-person shooter games, you'll probably have the hand-eye coordination to 'head-shot' the close button before the window has barely rendered.
So yes, I'm seeing more popups lately, but any advertising content in said windows has barely 'spawned' before it's sent back to oblivion!