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Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore
An anonymous reader writes "If you've noticed that pop-up ad windows seem to have made an unwelcome return into your life, it's because they're not using the same easily blockable technology as before. The Adimpact system uses DHTML to annoy you, and there's no immediate prospect of a solution."
...but I got so distracted with those shiny X10 pop-up ads.
It has subtracts too!
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Blackjack and hookers.
And likewise if your content is residing on my harddrive then you are squatting on my property and must pay me rent.
(I wonder how much more surreal we can make this? ;D)
and are a complete RETARD.
Or maybe you're just working in marketing
I thought the second was a subset of the first.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Why not just telnet to port 80 and read the page as it streams across?
Right.
I had to go to the website's ISP, get the webpage on paper tape, take it back to the computer room, type in the binary codes using only the 1's and 0's on a teletype machine and then read the content from the blinking lights on the front of a PDP-8/E. And when we were finished, the sysadmin would kill us and dance on our graves singing Hallelujah.
Why doesn't Slashdot ever get slashdotted?
You had blue balls?
Then how do you pay for the content? Do you send the site owner checks directly?
E pluribus unum
I use Firefox with the AdBlock Plus, NoScript, and FlashBlock add-ons installed. I haven't noticed any pop-up ads.
Damn, do you see any content?
Sounds like someone is in need of a few extra visitors.
Perhaps in the form of a distributed set of requests - that really shouldn't be denied - for service, but we surely shouldn't attack them.
Question everything
Excuse me, but we disagree with you. Thanks, US Auto Industry US Airline Industry US Banking Industry
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Popups are why I hesitate to go to weather.com
Is it going to rain this afternoon, oh dear, I could go to weather dot.com, but I might encounter a pop-up. Should I do it? "Hey Frank, is it supposed to rain this afternoon?" Crap. He doesn't know. Oh, me oh my, maybe I should just look. There are hundreds of other internet weather sources available to me, but I'm hooked on weather.com's unique lack of accuracy in their forecasting. But the pop-ups, what will I do if I encounter a pop-up! Maybe I should go have lunch - ruminate on it before just wildly clicking on my bookmark. Maybe Brenda will be at lunch, maybe she will know what the forecast is....
sorry, but you had it coming.
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I'm already off your lawn.
Lawns?...Luxury... in my day we didn't have lawns. A dead peice of grass sitting in a cracked pot was all you could expect.
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