Public service announcement
Oct. 6th, 2004 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqThis applies to Windows users only - Mac and *nix users will find their browser karma in different ways.
I can count on one finger the number of unwanted pop-ups (or pop-unders) that I've encountered in the last 2-3 years of browsing. I certainly don't feel like I've been missing out for not getting those popups, and I have yet to encounter a site whose legitimate pop-ups haven't worked. I don't know why people insist on letting runaway pop-ups ruin their browsing experience when the fix is very easy.
Solution 1: Duh.
Solution 2: If you insist on using IE, upgrade your damn browser.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
Solution 3: Get a decent popup blocker
http://www.bayden.com/popper/
If you are too paranoid (or sane) to upgrade to SP2, or you're running an older version of Windows, then get Popup Popper - the best pop-up blocker out there -- and it's free. Trust me, you'll wonder how you ever surfed without it.
Anyway, that's all for today. I'm off to a training course for the rest of the day.
I can count on one finger the number of unwanted pop-ups (or pop-unders) that I've encountered in the last 2-3 years of browsing. I certainly don't feel like I've been missing out for not getting those popups, and I have yet to encounter a site whose legitimate pop-ups haven't worked. I don't know why people insist on letting runaway pop-ups ruin their browsing experience when the fix is very easy.
Solution 1: Duh.
Solution 2: If you insist on using IE, upgrade your damn browser.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
Solution 3: Get a decent popup blocker
http://www.bayden.com/popper/
If you are too paranoid (or sane) to upgrade to SP2, or you're running an older version of Windows, then get Popup Popper - the best pop-up blocker out there -- and it's free. Trust me, you'll wonder how you ever surfed without it.
Anyway, that's all for today. I'm off to a training course for the rest of the day.
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Date: 2004-10-06 07:11 am (UTC)Why do people get agravated with popup ads? Because they are doing something and have to stop and go off to get rid of the ad, that's why. It's no less annoying than being in your car and having to stop every block as people hired by the nearby stores jump in front of you to tell you about their great specials on Ethiopian food or new low prices on doggie sweaters. And for a time there, clicking one to make it go away just opened up another.
People don't like them and don't want to see them. That's a good enough reason to get rid of them right there.