Talk:Pop-up ad

Hello,

Another great free Popup Blocker Test is located at PopupCheck.com. They also list and rate the top ten free popup blockers.

Thanks,

Jim.

Not effective?

The most recent edit put the words "not effectively" next to IE XP SP2 in the browser list. That seems a bit POV to me, since not all other pop-up blockers are 100% effective. And IE has settings for it that can tweak the effectiveness of its pop-up blocking, which that comment doesn't take into account. -- [[User:LGagnon|LGagnon]] 01:10, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

I removed it. We're better off without it. --Spug 14:26, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

browsers that block pop ups

iCab has blocked pop ups on the Mac for at least 5 years (http://www.icab.de)

Pop-up blocking has gotten better

Pop-up blocking has gotten better over the past few years - especially with non-Microsoft products. One software product I used a few years ago was pretty much all or nothing. It'd just block all pop-up windows, even those that the user requested. The product had it so your pushed the ctrl key to bypass the popup blocker when clicking on a link and allow the pop up to work. The built in software on Firefox has been for me over 90% effective. I get unrequested pop-ups only once in a great while, and almost never have problems with requested pop-ups.
JesseG 03:19, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Firefox is a godsend. I don't use it much though. +_+ Worldmaster0

Error in Firefox

This article, along with the article for Adware, doesn't show up correctly for me in Firefox. In both articles the first paragraph does not appear. Does anyone know why this is? -- LGagnon 23:33, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Works fine for me. Are you using Firefox 1.0.4? Perhaps you have a greasemonkey script or other extension that's interfering with them? One of my AdBlock filters prevents me from seeing the image in this article. ··gracefool |☺ 01:12, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. The Sponsored Links Remover script for GreaseMonkey was the cause. -- LGagnon 05:07, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

This is one of the problems with Greasemonkey; there have been several high-profile cases of people mistaking the effect of a greasemonkey script to a change in a website. The developers are considering how to address this. But this whole section is off-topic :J ··gracefool |☺ 10:26, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Possible External Link Removal

It is odd that we link to a page called "http://www.iomagic.org/fsc/pleasedontlinkheredirectly.htm".

It is also odd that we link to a page about a popup remover that itself contains a popup!

Yes, very odd. Worldmaster0

the history of pop-ups

Hi, I was just curious if anyone knows when the first pop-up was designed. I'm doing a project on pop-ups but every time I search for the history, I seem to get history of pop-up books. I would really appreciate any information I could get. Thanks!

section added

Hello. Just added the section on the floating ad. I did a search for it, but there were no references to it anywhere so I added it here since that made the most sense. Not sure if it deserves its own article, as it seems to cross several advertising boundaries at once. --Bobcat 19:32, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

IE 7 Beta 2

With the release of Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 (the Windows part of the name must be to strengthen links with XP and Vista) I've added IE7 to the pop-up blocking browsers list. IE7 includes all of the features of IE6SP2, with tabbed browsing added. Digifiend 11:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Very poorly written section

"One way for PC users to close these ad windows is accessing the Task Manager via the Control-Alt-Delete shortcut and terminating Internet Explorer, which can result in all active IE windows (including those not connected to the pop-up) closing, and another way to close the mousetrapping window could be to hold down the Alt button and press F4 to close the active window. It is not known why advertisers use these techniques as they are more likely to annoy and even anger the consumer than making them buy the product praised in the ad."

How can we give an opinion like such in an encyclopedia article. I am changing this immediatly. - tingalex

Problems with pop-up blockers and non-advertising 'pop-ups'

I reorganized this section. Most of the information on Cyworld belonged in the Cyworld article and not this one. Tocharianne 23:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand this passage:

Online dating services are most prevalent in this category; LoopyLove.com, Pocado.com, DatingDirect.com, GirlsDateForFree.com and MatchMaker.com are known to harvest email addresses and create false accounts for the purposes of increasing site traffic and boosting advertising revenue. Accounts created in this way usually only remain active for three to four weeks before the hijack is discovered and the account deleted.

This says that the sites are doing the hijacking, then implies that the sites discover they are being hijacked. What's up?

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