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Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-them-so-much dept.

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."

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  1. Re:There is no problem. by FredFredrickson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree with this one. If you're so insensitive to your customer/reader base that you don't mind putting offensive ads into your content (Time.com I'm looking at you), then you don't get my business at all.

    Why companies think they can do whatever they want with no consequences.. I have no idea.

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  2. Re:Great article by xorsyst · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How is it not intrusive? I browse to a website I haven't been to before - something I do several times daily - and it doesn't work right unless I click that little S and allow it permission to run javascript.

    That pretty much defines intruding on my experience.

    I still use it though because I'm paranoid, but I wouldn't install it on my parents' computer.

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  3. Re:Great article by fprintf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    50's and 60's? As 4th graders in 1977 we collected cans by the side of the road to be melted down from all over town. I even found a set of baskets to bolt onto my bike - we had a magnet and on one side we would put the old steel cans and on the other side we'd put the new aluminum cans. Inevitably there'd be more aluminium cans as the summer wore on and we'd be upset because steel cans were worth a whole lot more than aluminum ones back then. You could also sometimes tell just by looking at the pull tab - this was before the pop top - they had different shapes. I earned a ton of money picking up cans to supplement my paper route.

    Kids these days have no idea - my kids want an allowance for emptying the friggin' dishwasher and walking the dog. Sheesh. I know as parents we don't make it easy for them, hell I was roaming a 10 mile radius of suburbia at that time, and I hardly ever lose sight of my kids today.

    Sorry. Can you please get off my lawn now?

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