-- POPUPS -- please read

[TCO]

Mark,

I can live with the popups. And can live with sexy popups. But please get rid of things that tell people that the owners of the site want them to download a program.

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm getting a flash download from macromedia whenever the Wall Street Journal banner runs.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by TCO
But please get rid of things that tell people that the owners of the site want them to download a program.

a screenshot (so i can identify the advertiser)?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I'm getting a flash download from macromedia whenever the Wall Street Journal banner runs.

hmm probably they use a new version flash and you need to upgrade

[cavebear]

I'm suddenly getting a stack of pop-up-and-under ads every time I open the site. 4-12 per visit. I thought I was avoiding this by choosing the lite version of the site (and I was not seeing them until the past couple weeks). This does not thrill me.

I'll reopen my ad-blocker software if it continues.

[TCO]

Originally posted by MarkG
a screenshot (so i can identify the advertiser)?

It was previously reported and had a screenie...

[cavebear]

Hey, I'm serious. These increased ads are a real problem. They are stacking up so fast it is messing with my ability to multi-task.

Something has changed very recently and I will not put up with it.

I'm damned mad about it!

[MarkG]

Originally posted by TCO
It was previously reported and had a screenie...

link of post?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by cavebear
Hey, I'm serious. These increased ads are a real problem.

1) do you have cookies enabled?
2) you actually have the default style which already has the fewer popups(but only if you allow cookies)

[TCO]

Originally posted by MarkG
link of post?

Oh...fine. I'll go look. I would have helped the site, but I got banned.

[H Tower]

I've been getting messages asking me to download a text file when I click on links going to other threads in poly. (i haven't downloaded it) here's the screen shot


moo3 default, cookies enabled, using opera. other ads on the page were amazon at the bottom and an SBC ad at the top

[MarkG]

H Tower seems like it's a case of a file extension that opera doesnt understand and asks you to download it...

try another browser and see if you get it again

[H Tower]

well, I'm using IE right now another computer and I haven't had it happen to me yet. I have had a bunch of pop ups that don't work and are javascript()open which are semi amusing.

[gunkulator]

Grrr pop-ups! At home I can block them easily just by using the google toolbar or any browser other than IE. At work, I'm obligated to use an unmodified IE browser which means I have to be quick on the close button in case it's something like Britney Spears popping up. So in no case do I ever actually read them. Inline ads I'll actually look at. Pop-ups, never. Yes, I understand the need for advertising but pop-ups are too instrusive.

Just my $0.02.

[Conqueror]

Whats the deal with the joetec . net pop-up that appears when you try to download something ?

I just keep getting totally blank page there with no option to proceed downloading Same problem with Opera 7.23 and IE6.

/edit: I've had the problem about 2-3 weeks now, before that, downloading was fine.