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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."
The only reason I haven't tried NetFlix is popups for their product. When they stop annoying me I may try their product.
Popups are why I hesitate to go to weather.com
Agreed, these people are retarded.
Free Martian Whores!
Well, that's just plain stupid. Flash is a lightweight way to make the content much more interesting. Everything on the web gets abused to advertise, singling out flash doesn't make any sense.
Insightful? Not really.
It's called making a living, and believe me, forcing pops does indeed work.
FYI, NoScript has a "blacklist" mode which works in the opposite way. You can leave JavaScript on all the time and selectively disable it when a site annoys you. I think this has only been around for a year or so... maybe it wasn't there when you last played with it.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Welcome to development with inherently dangerous products and materials.
Watch the rest of us take ten steps back from your explosively laden piles of shit, and go do other things in places where sane sensible people have built things properly.
The only sites in the world I enable noscript on are the ones I trust very very much. All the rest either work, or they don't. Only one shit site a day doesn't work, and I don't care. It was obviously built by idiots, it couldn't have been any good.
Good riddance.