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Stein
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Have you ever.......?
#2118562 - 11/17/03 10:30 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Have you ever actually clicked on a pop up ad to get more details? I never have and never will reguardless of interest in the ad.
Its the fact that someone feels I need to see a commercial while visiting their site that pisses me off. I know sites need money to stay up, but why annoy the guests?
I feel banners are sufficient enough. As a matter of fact I click on banners every so often, but never will I click a pop up ad that slows down my ride through the internet.
Pop up blocking software seems to fuck my computer everytime I use one. However, I haven't used one in a long time. Are there any safe ones now that don't eventually lock up your computer?
Mostly what is your opinion on pop-ups?
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oneducktwoducks
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Re: Have you ever.......? [Re: Stein]
#2118572 - 11/17/03 10:35 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think I may have clicked on 1 or 2 pr0n pop-ups, but then you get caught in that endless cycle and I learned my lesson.
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Xochitl
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Re: Have you ever.......? [Re: Stein]
#2118580 - 11/17/03 10:39 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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use a browser that automatically blocks pop-ups and other annoying garbage (hint: see my sig ) IE is wired to allow all kinda of shit like that because MS is a bunch of whores.
-------------------- As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know. -Donald Rumsfeld 2/2/02 Pentagon
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adrug
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Re: Have you ever.......? [Re: Stein]
#2118788 - 11/18/03 12:37 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Popups are the most worthless form of advertising known to man. I have only clicked a handful in the 8 years I've been online. Popups are the devil! Banner ads are almost as bad, but as long as they are used properly and targeted to the right audience, they can be effective.
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RunDMT
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Re: Have you ever.......? [Re: Stein]
#2118826 - 11/18/03 12:58 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Never! That would be blasphemy.
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OctopusDr
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Re: Have you ever.......? [Re: Stein]
#2118835 - 11/18/03 01:03 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have been getting these "SAVE NOW!" things popping up a lot lately.
bunch-o-bullshit
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four20snakeman
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Re: Have you ever.......? [Re: OctopusDr]
#2118941 - 11/18/03 02:14 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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save now is a whole program dedicated just to giving you pop-ups, how thoughtful, and to make it worse it takes up space on your hard drive. Download Spybot- search and destroy and ad-aware to take care of stuff like that.
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Stein
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How do I know spybot isn't in on the shit?
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MyInsanityTrip
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Re: Have you ever.......? [Re: Stein]
#2118990 - 11/18/03 02:39 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well this one time, on the intranet, I was surfin this site, or maybe it wasn't me surfing but my brother or a friend maybe, and they somehow downloaded this thingy like a trojan horse dialer on to computer. I know because when I did a virus scan there was maybe 5 seperate entries all leading to this trojan horse and I was like WHAT THE HELL MAN.
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Psilocybeingzz
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look, this is the 2nd post with you being a dickhead..quit it.
Edited by boO (11/18/03 04:07 AM)
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MyInsanityTrip
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Ok, I wasn't sure at first, but now I'm certain.
This poster is harrassing me and making me feel bad about being who I am, please, someone, anybody, make him stop.
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