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   aReader(), Jan 20th, 2004 @ 2:18pm

   
   

   Okay, so now we need Pop Up Bloker Blocker Blocker

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   Pop Up Blocker Blocker

   

   Greg Scher, Jan 20th, 2004 @ 3:08pm

   
   

   I don't think that anyone is missing the point. This is a cat and mouse game. Besides, a well protected PC should not be susecptible to such pop up blocker blocking since whatever scripts spammers use to detect them shouldn't even be allowed to work in the first place.
   
   What we need is for users to be educated.

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   ads

   

   aNonMooseCowherd, Jan 20th, 2004 @ 4:58pm

   
   

   Clearly, someone is missing the point. The reason people install pop-up blockers is because they don't want to be bothered with these intrusive ads.

   Well, advertisers seem to go on the assumption that the more people see their ads, the better. I don't know whether there's any evidence that this is true, but it seems to be an axiom of the business.

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   John, Jan 25th, 2004 @ 7:12pm

   
   

   Try this Pop-up Blocker http://www.synergeticsoft.com/

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   Clearly, someone *is* missing the point...

   

   Lew Payne, Feb 20th, 2005 @ 10:27pm

   
   

   "Clearly, someone is missing the point. The reason people install pop-up blockers is because they don't want
   to be bothered with these intrusive ads. Getting around that doesn't make them more interested in anyone's
   product. It just pisses them off."
   
   Yes... clearly, someone _is_ missing the point. Many web sites are "free" to the surfer due to pop-up and banner
   advertising. In other words, they're advertiser-supported. Those who don't want to be bothered by the "intrusive"
   ads should seek their content elsewhere (probably via a paid subscription to an equivalent site).
   
   Subverting the site's only source of income does not make for a better surfing experience... it makes for one less
   individual site that can't meet its monthly obligations. Grow up. Learn to think from outside the box as well as inside.

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   Not really missing the point entirely

   

   Jonadab the Unsightly One, Feb 21st, 2005 @ 4:21pm

   
   

   There are two separate classes of people who block popups. There are people like you, who don't want to see any advertising, period, and then there are people like me, who aren't bothered by in-band advertising. By in-band, I mean stuff that stays in the web page's designated canvas area. I occasionally am annoyed by something in-band because it is garish or blinky or flashy, but regular banners and whatnot don't bother me; I have occasionally even been known to consider purchasing a product that I saw advertised in a banner, such as the Colo hosting I saw advertised in a pair.com banner on Perlmonks.org. (I didn't buy it, but I might have if other circumstances had transpired differently. Granted, this is an example of an ad that was fairly targeted; people on perlmonks are *way* more likely than average to be looking for colo hosting. Google's ad program has caught onto this principle in a big way.)

   Popups are a horse of a different color, because they interfere substantially with my computer and the way I have things set up. In-band advertisements don't do that: they don't place windows in places I don't want them, at sizes I don't want them to be, forcing me to reposition or resize them; they also don't create windows that are missing important bits of chrome, such as the status bar or the menu bar. In short, in-band advertising is much better behaved than popups, and so it doesn't (usually) bother me. (When it does bother me, I right-click and choose "Remove this object", courtesy of the NukeAnything extension to Firefox. But I don't have to do this very often -- although I suspect it would be more often if I had Flash installed.)

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   pup-up bloker disable but still working

   

   fatih, Jun 8th, 2006 @ 11:52pm

   
   

   hi..
   pup-up bloker disable but still working.
   when i click tiff picture open new window 1 seconds leter bib signal and close window.
   how can i do?

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   hi

   

   Raiiny.Diiane, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 4:38am

   
   

   MERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
   go on www. 0oo.info
   
   now gimme sum unblocked site :D

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