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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.'"
Shitbutt
Poos for turds. Shit that splatters.
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"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."
I want to see them beating me turning off JavaScript. I hate you, you cunts!
and w3m is better than links
sire, vous la mangez par votre cul.
it's all you firefox evangelists. you made it so the people suceptible to ads picked up firefox just cause you said so. any computer scientist will tell you that any dataset there is a factor outside it. you cannot account for everything, as long as you have a tool available, it can be exploited, and only, fundementally speaking, a intelligent factor(not your average user) can stop things.
as long as "you need this plugin to play this game" stands, some people will fall for it.
welcome to the world you created.
Turn off Javascript. No popups. No decent site should require Javascript anyway so it's no big deal.
You can download it here
People who freeload by blocking popups should be shot, fucktard. Have fun sticking your hamster up your ass.
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A closer analogy would be a television, or DVD player.
There's a certain sweet spot for television. Too many ads and you'll lose viewers, and features such as VCR & TIVO ad skips gain importance.
Such as the disable menu flag on DVD's. As long as DVD manufacturers only used the 'feature' for the FBI/Interpol warning, people weren't too pissed off. As soon as Disney started setting it for their 5+ minute ad bonanzas at the beginning, people starting shoping for players that ignore the flag(and often getting region & macrovision free in the process).
The whole problem came from, like many 'features' from microsoft, is that, used correctly, they are useful features. Now, I have seen a couple sites that open a new window in a more or less useless way, but as a legitimate site(which is why I like white lists). I have also seen sites that use popups in a legitimate fashion, for control and form entry. But just like the scripting in microsoft office that allows a user to mass mail things like customized form letters to customers ultimatly, when combined with other features allows the macroviruses to reign.
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