Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Wetaskiwin AB, Canada
Posts: 1438

Finally, Justice! Damn pop up spam...

Arrests, closures, charges and the shutdown of thousands of sites. I think they should just put him in a room with all the people he sucked in...

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/200...tc/13880_1.html

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: 54.60°N 5.70°W
Posts: 1950

And when I clicked on the yahoo news link, this popped up in a separate window. Amazingly, it was completely out of my control.

(Lame and unbelieveably mawkish attempt to flog Old Glory to unbelievably mawkish American citizens.)

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: California
Posts: 4252

I love the fact that when you go read that article it tosses up a popup. He he.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: zanzibar
Posts: 10413

Well if nothing else I can say that I learned a new word today. Thanks to Pangloss and the fine folks at Merriam-Webster.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Payne, Ohio
Posts: 2062

I hate POP UPS they really piss me off. Im glad that son of a bitch has been arrested for that.

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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: ........
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Pop-up stopper.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Payne, Ohio
Posts: 2062

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Originally posted by skalie
Pop-up stopper.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Long Beach, CA
Posts: 862

from quickly reading the online docs, it stops ALL popups.

if you want to open something in a new window, you need to either ctrl or shift click on the link.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Musashi
from quickly reading the online docs, it stops ALL popups.

if you want to open something in a new window, you need to either ctrl or shift click on the link.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Payne, Ohio
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quote:

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Originally posted by Musashi
from quickly reading the online docs, it stops ALL popups.

if you want to open something in a new window, you need to either ctrl or shift click on the link.

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Registered: Sep 2001
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[spamming free stuff]

Ctrl or Shift.

It doesn't effect normal browsing, just the "open in new window" pages.

[/spamming free stuff]

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: 54.60°N 5.70°W
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It is my deeply felt observation that the sum total of sites worth looking at which have hideous numbers of popups = zero.

Why the need for pointlessly complicated processor-sapping extra software?

Why not just stop looking at lame porn/warez sites and learn how to find the good stuff?

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Registered: Sep 2001
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Originally posted by Pangloss
It is my deeply felt observation that the sum total of sites worth looking at which have hideous numbers of popups = zero.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 15123

You know, the worst part is that there's really no fucking point to what he's doing.

Why would any company want to advertise at a site that crashes or locks the browser, thereby making it impossible for them to visit the site they're advertising anyway?

Not to mention that most would be so pissed that they'd likely refuse to ever visit any sites advertising via this method later.

Stupidity.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: 54.60°N 5.70°W
Posts: 1950

Skalie, not incoincidentally, (or Scally, if your prefer) is slang in Liverpool (England) for someone of limited intellect and a downwardly mobile personality.

Funny how convergent evolution works, isn't it? Opposite sides of oceans, words coming to mean the same things independent of each other. Like the long-fingered possum of Papua New Guinea and Madagascar's aye-aye, only it's bizarrely long middle digits and not mentally incontinent trolls that are converging.



But that's another story.

Skalie, relax a little and try not to take everything said around you as a blistering attack on your rather unobtrusive presence. Shocking as it may seem, I'd barely even registered your presence here until you started snapping at my heels.

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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: ........
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Excuse me for taking things personally, sorry that my unobtrusiveness hit a spot, try not to lose any sleep over it.

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