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Mat Lindsay (the researcher formerly known as Nylarthotep...now he has a name, all he needs is a face) Started conversation Jul 18, 2003
How much advertising are we subjected to each day? Billboards, magazine adds, tv and radio commercials, mailshots and add banners on websites. I suspect that soon there will be technology created to beam adds into our dreams as we sleep. But what is more intrusive than internet pop-up adds, I ask you?
We already have garish banners flashing away on most websites. We're bombarded by SPAM constantly. But no, this is not enough. Instead we have to put up with the army of little windows that multiply like bacteria on your monitor every time you visit a new website. They sell utter crap from so-called spy cameras to the services of online cassinos, all stuff that you'd need a plate in your head to want to actually buy or use.
Then there are the sites that use what I like to call "no-fair" technology. The x-rated sites that open themselves as you surf and then use a browser trap to keep you from leaving the very second you relaise what you've happened upon. The dodgy search engines that automatically select themselves as your homepage, the list goes on. One site even downloaded an erotic search engine onto my brother's browser, which he didn't ask for and now can't get rid of.
These people are the worst kind of scum.
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Joe Otten Posted Jul 18, 2003
Quite agree. We all ignore advertising, and advertisers are fighting back by being more intrusive. I talk about this at
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Ste Posted Jul 18, 2003
Get the Opera browser. I haven't had a single pop-up for months. IE is really a very bad program. You just have to use something better (and get used to the program too) to realise it.
Ste
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Dryopithecus Posted Jul 18, 2003
I agree. Get the Opera browser and add a good firewall. ZoneAlarm is free but I use ZoneAlarm pro. It's well worth it. Either will stop illicit attempts to access your computer, thus preventing many of the spammers from finding you. ZoneAlarm pro has more options for ad and mobile code blocking and you can even block chosen sites.
Dry.
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short_Rz Posted Jul 19, 2003
If you want to stay with IE, then get Emerald's PopStop, which is free and very good. It also stops the latest trend in spam, broadcasts using the windows messenging service (2000 and XP)...
http://www.emeraldpopstop.com/
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