Irritating new way to advertise

[pygarr]

I've never much liked most Web advertising. Popups are especially hateful; I don't like having my limited PC compute power wasted on somebody's idiotic ad for microcameras that stare down some anorexic chick's tits. Apparently popups aren't going away, so I just whack 'em as soon as they pop up

Comments

[ours_garou]

Here are two hints that may help cut down on pop-ups and DHTML abuse (the kind of ad you experienced today):

• If you're using MSIE, add suspect sites (e.g. ones that attack you with bunny-hopping ads) into your "Restricted Sites" group. That'll prevent client-side scripts from executing, including ones that use DHTML.
• I use AnalogX's POW! to auto-nail pop-up windows. Every time I see a new one, I add it into my Pow! database. If the URL can be adapted into a wildcard-escaped sequence to crunch a wider range of pop-ups (e.g. http://adserver.assmasters.com/*), I do that, too. It really does help cut down on the number of annoying windows I need to close.

Hope that helps. I hate marketing in all its many forms.

Use Mozilla 1.0!

[anonymous]

Mozilla 1.0 allows you to DISABLE popups and other annoying windows on a PER-SITE basis (useful for those annoying login screens on essential sites).