So I'm coming to the end of the process for transferring a domain to GoDaddy and get this...

I nearly shutdown the browser and left right there :angry:

Good Lord, a popup ad selling popup killer software! How silly is that!

Considering that that's Mozilla you can turn off most popups.

the title should be "This should piss you off. Join the growing trend of over 99% of internet users"

>> Considering that that's Mozilla you
>> can turn off most popups.

I tried turning them off but I sometimes find them useful for legit uses (info boxes etc) and I was constantly wondering whether I was missing anything :)

>> the title should be "This should piss
>> you off. Join the growing trend of
>> over 99% of internet users"

Fortunately, I don't find myself at sites with millions of ad popups too often but thought that I wouldn't have to suffer this particular one when I'm in the middle of giving a company some cash!

anyone know of a good popup killer program that actually works? Thanks.

To JIM - I've seen that pop-up message many many times already all over the web.

to JSTYLER, I use free and incredibly small and bug-free POW! program from AnalogX and I am a happy guy!! It works superb for me. You just have to spend up to 5 seconds teaching it for each pop-up that opens and that you DON'T wanna see in future and that's it! it was one and only pop-up killer i've downloaded from download.com

hope this helps.

Originally by Jim_UK
>> Considering that that's Mozilla you
>> can turn off most popups.

I tried turning them off but I sometimes find them useful for legit uses (info boxes etc) and I was constantly wondering whether I was missing anything :)

Which is why web developers need to stop thinking that they need to have pages open in new windows. No need at all.

I don't use pop up blockers because I like being able to right clicking and opening pages in new windows, and unfortunately they usually get closed by the blocker. I haven't tried out Mozilla though, maybe I'll try downloading that.

I think you should at least write to godaddy and complain that they almost lost your business because of it. Woulda been more effective if you walked and then let them know why.

I'll never forget the look on the bank manager's face after I tried to get her to explain what my new accounts entailed when the bank was taken over and she couldn't and I said I wanted to close all my accounts right there on the spot.

What really ticked me in advance was some fine print on the back side of the bottom of page 3 of a checking statement I'd received telling me I'd be charged $8 a mo. for a service I'd always received for free from the old bank. If the manager had been able to explain things and placate me perhaps it would have been different. All she could do was grasp at straws and say their "products" had changed. Excuse me, but I don't consider a bank acct to be a "product". It's a service and I expect the bank personnel to provide me with service. In this case I just took my money elsewhere.

Popup Stopper (http://www.panicware.com/popupstoppercompare.html) Works for IE 5.x+ and Netscape 4.x+, it's great and it doesn't interfere with manual new window pop-ups, all you do is hold down the ctrl key if you want a new window opened manually. I dunno if it will work for Mozilla though.

Originally posted by Jim_UK
So I'm coming to the end of the process for transferring a domain to GoDaddy and get this...

I nearly shutdown the browser and left right there :angry:

Won't the people who made that popup blocker get less and less money since their product is blocking their own popups? :)

I'd definately write them and let them know they almost lost a sale because of that garbage. :angry:

I use Proxomitron (http://www.proxomitron.org/) and it works wonders. :) Since I've been using the same version for over a year, I've only seen a handfull of popup since I've started using it. It also allows you do add custom filters which makes it better.

Disclaimer: No! I do not work with, nor am I associated with the creator of this program, I just highly recommend it.

Originally posted by arpmn
Good Lord, a popup ad selling popup killer software! How silly is that!

How much ya wanna bet it doesnt block THIER ads (hehehe) No,if you want a good pop-up stopper,try MyIE (See my other thread HERE (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=98158&perpage=15&pagenumber=2))

Very,very good....NO POP UPS...RIGHT CLICK AVAILABLE,NOTHING IN THE BACKGROUND,EVERYTHING DONE IN THE BROWSER!!! (VERY,VERY GOOD) MyIE is the best browser to use!!

The Dude :)

Acronym BOY,

I disagree with your comment about no need to launch pages in new windows. It makes sense to open a new window if you are pulling up a page on an external site. Unless you don't want the person to come back. For example our newsletter usually includes links to useful information on other websites. We want our customers to return to our site after visiting the external site. The most effective way to do this is to open a new window rather than expecting them to hit the back button. When we switched from loading the page in the existing browser window to launching a new one, we found people were more likely to return to our site.

However, I don't think pop-ups should be launched automatically when visiting a site, or worse everytime you click on a page in a site.

KG

HA! That's nothing. :rolleyes:

You should see the ads that they have over at weather.com! They're disgusting. I'm there, sitting, taking a look at the forecast then out of no where, BAM! This huge ass verizon ad slides accross the screen so that I can't even read what I was previously looking at. And once the ad reaches the center of the screen it sits there for like 10 seconds, untill it moves across to the other side.

This type of advertising makes me want to puke. :puke:

I should get you guys a screen-shot. It's horrible...!

Originally posted by KG
Acronym BOY,

I disagree with your comment about no need to launch pages in new windows. It makes sense to open a new window if you are pulling up a page on an external site. Unless you don't want the person to come back. For example our newsletter usually includes links to useful information on other websites. We want our customers to return to our site after visiting the external site. The most effective way to do this is to open a new window rather than expecting them to hit the back button. When we switched from loading the page in the existing browser window to launching a new one, we found people were more likely to return to our site.

However, I don't think pop-ups should be launched automatically when visiting a site, or worse everytime you click on a page in a site.

KG

God forbid someone else visits another website.

If anyone designing and running a website wants vistors to only their site and no one elses, they need to get a grip. People will visit other sites. I will visit CNN, the BBC, the Times, and several other sites for news. I will visit Ars and 2cpu for computer forums. I will visit several places. Any site owner that thinks their site is the best and visitors should not "leave" their site need to start realizing there is a whole big internet out there. Either you offer a superior web page to keep people coming back even after they close their browsers, or become a dot-bomb.

You can either use a php include to add a 1 cm bar across the top and bottom to return them to the last page on your site or just let the link open in a normal window. If I want to (and I do when I don't want to "leave" a site) I will Shift+Click which will open a new window. The downside is if the window is set to pop up, there is no quick way to force it to the same window. I will very quickly leave a site that is filled with pop up links.

Let's face it, if people aren't coming back on their own and remembering your site, is your site really that good?

Case in point, google. The default is to open in the same window, yet people keep going back to google over and over and over again. If people aren't coming back to your site on their own, you aren't giving them a reason to.

Advertising pop ups. Not only do you hate them, they are also worthless as a marketing tool. ( A poll shows 100% of those polled don't even look at them:
Pop Up Poll (http://www.webmaster-forum.net/viewtopic.php?t=141) )
:(

Originally by vertical7
A poll shows 100% of those polled don't even look at them

Try a slightly larger microcosm than 10 people for the teeniest bit of accuracy.

12 people?
Holy****, that's a huge ****ing poll.

I mean, all of them are probably from the same type of people.

It's like this. People who get viruses(more than 5 times a day), are the same people that read those advertisments.

You know the people who share the computer with 5 people, who don't know jack **** about computers, and read email like:

Subject: THIS IS A VIRUS, IM NOT KIDDING PLEASE DONT OPEN
Attachment: Virus.exe.its.not.exe (49kb)
Sender: 4398ty2934y@ifookedjoomommawithavirus.com

>A poll shows 100% of those polled
>don't even look at them

Hahaha... :D.. 14 whole people!.. this is some poll! heh.. although im sure the percent is about right.


>free and incredibly small and bug-free
>POW! program from AnalogX and I am a
>happy guy!!

Ya Ive been using that for like 2 years... I love it! definatly recomend it if you visit a certian site that has popups.. (I do) Fast install, and youll forget its there. Very small and never crashes or anything.. quality peice of work.

I got some freakin' annoying pop-ups yesterday...happened when I accidently typed yaho.com instead of yahoo.com :)


don't do it.

wow i bet they make some good money off of that..

Originally posted by Ivana Nutjob
Popup Stopper (http://www.panicware.com/popupstoppercompare.html) Works for IE 5.x+ and Netscape 4.x+, it's great and it doesn't interfere with manual new window pop-ups, all you do is hold down the ctrl key if you want a new window opened manually. I dunno if it will work for Mozilla though.
I second this suggestion. Works like a charm on IE 6.

A companion freebie is the NO FLASH! which allows for very peaceful surfing. :)

Originally posted by 311
HA! That's nothing. :rolleyes:

You should see the ads that they have over at weather.com! They're disgusting. I'm there, sitting, taking a look at the forecast then out of no where, BAM! This huge ass verizon ad slides accross the screen so that I can't even read what I was previously looking at. And once the ad reaches the center of the screen it sits there for like 10 seconds, untill it moves across to the other side.

This type of advertising makes me want to puke. :puke:

I should get you guys a screen-shot. It's horrible...!

Thats why you should get MyIE,check out my other thread,under Poll: What do you do with those annoying pop ups) No ads pop up in your face,all ads blocked,and the 1's that arent,you can ADD to the list.......(Very good browser)

The Dude :)