 Zhen-XjellProlific BunnyPremium,VIP,ExMod 2001-04
join:2000-10-08
Bordentown, NJ | reply to bangaroo
Re: Online ads get in your face Heh, I should have found this article before I started my review. I haven't gone to those links yet, but it sounds like they are the one-stop-test sites to visit. |
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 meeowI'm a little spaceyPremium,MVM
join:1999-08-20
Portland, OR
kudos:1
 ·Comcast
| Hah! I just went to that site and my Popki stopped everyone of their attempts to "take over my browser".
I'm boycotting a few of these sites including MSNBC, and have written to tell them exactly why.
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I didn't get a chance to carefully read the whole Yahoo article or check out the other links (I got to get to the saltmine ), but the one I posted is a good start. I actually had to ctrl-alt-delete my IE to get rid of one of the windows.
I am curious if the add blocking programs or the hosts files will prevent this monkey business.
What I am finding more and more is that ACTIVE SCRIPTING is extremely powerful and dangerous. |
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 jaykaykay4 Ever YoungPremium,MVM
join:2000-04-13
Scottsdale, AZ
kudos:19
 ·Speakeasy
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I didn't get a chance to carefully read the whole Yahoo article or check out the other links (I got to get to the saltmine), but the one I posted is a good start. I actually had to ctrl-alt-delete my IE to get rid of one of the windows.
I am curious if the add blocking programs or the hosts files will prevent this monkey business.
What I am finding more and more is that ACTIVE SCRIPTING is extremely powerful and dangerous.
I left my Active Scripting off and got only prompts for 2 Active X items, which I said no to. Then I turned it on, and got 3 prompts this time. Otherwise, nothing else, and I did not activate PopKi, so I must surmise the hosts file had something to do with it. I am not running any other ad blocking programs, so, yes, hosts definitely has a lot to do with it. I have found that other than a cookie thrown my way which got eaten by CookieWall, I don't have a problem with any of the sites mentioned here.
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Age is a very high price to pay for my maturity, so
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| It is great to see the veterans around here are well protected and didn't get mugged (I can think of better more descriptive words, but this is a family site) by these aggressive marketing sites.
One thing that amazes me is the person that wrote the article didn't once mention how easy it is to disable these pop-ups/multiple windows. It is like a a newspaper publishing a story about a new disease and not providing any information how to prevent getting it. I suspect the writer belongs to a website that uses the same aggressive marketing tools and he/she didn't want to get slapped on the wrists, or the editors didn't allow it. |
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