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TV ClubHouse: Archives: Most Annoying pop up ads: Archive through July 25, 2003

Jkm

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 10:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I most hate the WINNER flashing on and off and on and off and on and off -- it gives me a headache!!!

Conejo

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I hate the ones that cover your whole screen and you have to figure out how to get rid/out of them without getting offline entirely.

Egbok

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've gotten two pop up ads when logging on here. Has this happened to anyone else? Are we to expect this now?

Wargod

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, Eggie. Neil posted here about it.

Crazydog

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I hate the ones that have a link or a box that says "click here to close" but when you click there it simply opens up the ad.

Sanfranjoshfan

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I use Apple's Safari browser to surf the net these days....it has a built in pop-up ad blocker which is a godsend.

Does this TVCH site have pop ups now? Jeez, before long, the internet will look like tv with all that annoying screen clutter....those animated ads that cover the the bottom quarter of the screen DURING the program! I sure wish that I had a television with a "screen clutter and pop-up ad blocker"!

Egbok

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks War!

Squaredsc

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 12:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ms eggie i was wondering about that too.

Ophiliasgrandma

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 12:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My daughter had something installed on this computer and we get ZERO pop-ups now. Haven't had any for about 2 months. Whew, what a relief!

Admin

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 12:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There are no pop-ups here at the TV Clubhouse. In fact, there is no advertising whatsoever within the discussion board...only on a few static pages will you find a small banner near the top.

If you have pop-ups or pop-unders appearing, it is from something else. Maybe you surfed to a site before coming here, and there is a pop-up delay? Maybe you have spyware on your machine, which is tracking your internet usage and targeting you with pop-ups when you visit certain sites? Yes, that kind of advertising exists, but TVCH is not involved.

I recommend you install "Popup Stopper" from www.panicware.com if you don't like pop-ups.

If you don't like spyware, install "Ad-Aware" from www.lavasoft.nu

Whoami

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 12:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I hate the ones that pop up off-set, so the Close Button (X) is off the screen. I have AdAware and PopUp Stopper. Have been much less annoyed now that they are both on my 'puter!

Yea, those "winner" ones are annoying as heck. As are the "click here to close." Before I got PopUp Stopper, I almost always would just go to the toolbar at the bottom, right click and close on all the garbage that showed up. Of course that sometimes backfired, and I'd close the screen I really wanted too!

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 02:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am not getting any popups, but it sure is odd that Pamy (?) first mentioned it a few days ago, and we all assured her she must have some sort of spyware, and now a couple days later a whole bunch of folks are saying they are getting popups here when they never have before.

Remember you can close the top window on a pc by holding down Alt and hitting F4 up on the top row. Your popup will usually be the top window.

Seamonkey

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 07:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have Adaware installed and also AOL has a really decent popup blocker now.

It could be that some site that many TVCHers went to on a link could have been the culprit.. sometimes when you try to kill a popup it downloads spyware like Gator or Gain.

Ad-Aware can ferret out programs like those (they don't follow the "rules" so cannot be simply uninstalled)

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 08:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah! Excellent deduction, Seamonkey. Could be.

Jkm

Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 06:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My one beef is just the red flashing ones -- they givew me such a headache

Myjohnhenry

Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 10:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My least favorite is the Congratulations! You are the 100adnauseum visitor to this site that pops up right in the middle of the article you are going to read and is hard to get rid of.

As an aside...I like No-Ads for my pop up killer after trying a few and I do use Ad-Aware too. :)

Maris

Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I will tell you I was shocked two days ago when I got an X rated pop-up. There I was a happy camper, three kids playing in the bedroom - a popup comes up about debt, I clicked the x in the top right corner and a bombardment of banners come up, I couldnt X them out fast enough, the first few were harmless and then I was getting popups of women complete with genitalia exposed. I could not believe that sort of stuff is allowed on the web unsolicited. Can you imagine if a child was at the computer.

Talk about the fastest illegal shut down of a computer you ever saw. Installed my popup killer yesterday and now I can safely surf the net without getting arrested!!!!!

Tishala

Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 04:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maris, which pop up killer did you use? Does it make your comp run slowly?

Maris

Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 04:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nope not slow at all, I downloaded it from a link on this website (I know after all the warnings about following links). It was from panicware and it was free. havent had a popup yet and I downloaded it yesterday.

Tater

Saturday, June 28, 2003 - 05:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have been using Ad’sGone for about a year now. It has stopped about 99.9% of the pop ups I used to get. I highly recommend it!

Ryn

Monday, June 30, 2003 - 11:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This site and the site I run both use "fastclick" for our advertising. Neil isn't using pop-ups - just the banners.

On my site I do use the pop-unders - they are set to ONLY pop-under once every 12 hours. You CAN disable them by setting a cookie - this would probably disable a lot of other site pop-up ads as well so it might be worth checking out - here is the link http://www.fastclick.com/v4/safe_optout.go

I haven't tested it myself.

The most annoying ads are the "in-vue" ads - those are the ones on top of the content. I actually could place thse as well on my site but they are just tooo annoying.. Frankly I tend to avoid sites that I know have them while I will still visit sites with pop-unders.

Angelsluv

Friday, July 25, 2003 - 01:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Seems to me that as days go by, I am getting more and more popups on all the url's I get on. Every popup bothers me.. I've tried afew popup killers, but they don't seem to do much good.

On another note:

You know how we can call a phone # and stop the advertisers and survey people from calling our homes?? I really wished they would do this for spam in emails. Spam is more annoying to me than phone callers..

Bigd

Friday, July 25, 2003 - 07:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am very confused about what Admin is trying to tell us about the "banner" advertising. Could you break it down for me? (Edited to add that I usually never go to the TVCH main page - my homepage is set to the "General Discussion" page).

The past few weeks I have been getting "cookie" warnings when I visit this site. I have a pop-up blocker so I am not getting that problem but I am having more warnings lately (I use the "Scotty watch Dog" program - I think it is actually called "Win Patrol") and I really don't visit other sites often, so I am pretty sure some of the junk I am getting is from here. I read Wargod's response to someone a couple of weeks ago about the post that Neil made and then I saw the same post (as from above) from Admin, but I don't understand either. The only advertising I saw was for T-shirts and now it is gone.

On another note does anyone notice that if you have a pop-up blocker it even blocks "good" pop-ups? For instance I went to the McAfee site for technical support and also to the Road Runner site for technical support and the "online helper" pop-up window was also blocked. After and few trys, luckily I figured that out.

Ryn

Friday, July 25, 2003 - 08:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Things have changed a bit (re: this site) - I am e-mailing neil so he can address this hopefully.

Weinermr

Friday, July 25, 2003 - 08:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
For me there is no one most annoying pop-up ad. They are all annoying.