Wikipedia defines pop-up ads as "a form of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to increase web traffic or capture email addresses". It works when certain web sites open a new web browser window to display advertisements. The pop-up window containing an advertisement is usually generated by JavaScript, but can be generated by other means as well. A variation on the pop-up window is the pop-under advertisement. This opens a new browser window, behind the active window. Pop-unders interrupt the user less, but are not seen until the desired windows are closed, making it more difficult for the user to determine which Web site opened them."
Our2009 Member Choice Poll brought the following results:
392 total votes were cast from 245 members. Once again, Mozilla Firefox (40.5%) won hands down with 159 votes and Internet Explorer (6 or 7) took second place with 81 votes and 20.6% of the pie. With Opera stole third place
The Google Tool bar dropped to fourth place. Some voted "other" as a Hosts File(s) to block the ad's and popup's
Some other applications we looked at this year were:
•Ad Muncher
•AdAssasin
•AdsGone
•AdShield
•AdSubtract
•Alexa Toolbar
•AnalogX POW!
•Avant
•Free Surfer Companion
•Maxthon (formerly MyIE2)
•Meaya Ad Filter
•MSN Toolbar
•NoAds
•Norton Internet Security
•Pop This!
•Popup Manager
•Pop-Up Stopper (free)
•Pop-Up Stopper (professional)
•PopUpCop
•Proxomitron
•STOPzilla
•SUPER AdBlocker
•Yahoo! Toolbar
•ZoneAlarm Pro
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