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  • #16
    The bloody pop up are crashing my machine at work. They do ugly things through firewalls.

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    • #17
      <center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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      </font><font size=1>Originally posted by Huey on 06-17-2000 03:19 AM</font>
      I use this program that gets rid of ads on webpages but I always deactivate it when visiting Apolyton because I don't know if it will cost Markos and Dan any mony when I use it. But until those popups are gone it is activated
      <img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>Where can I get this program?

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      • #18
        pop-ups...

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        • #19
          To add insult to injury, the ad is only accessible from the US. Is there anything more pointless?


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          • #20
            I think other Hosted Site operators will agree with me that pop-ups suck greatly. When was the last time a professional sites had these things? Maybe Netcenter a few months back, but it included a "f*ck off, don't bother me again" option.

            I've always felt that UGO was a horrible site with horrible content and also horrible ads. Those "Like, News" (TM) ads are stupid as all hell but these popups really pushes the envelope of intense hatred I have for this awful association. Since when did an "underground" association (UGO stands for UnderGround Online) have such a bright-colored design, pop-culture content, and otherwise is merely a mainstream content site disguising as an underground site? If any site tries to be underground it had better have content on illegal (or barely legal) activities. I now hate UGO more than any other association on the internet. Even the evil Network Solutions is a distant 2nd.

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            • #21
              AIYAH!!! POP-UPS! Scourge of the universe! Make them go away! It's bad enough that the UGO banners frequently delay loading the page for so long, but to have to suffer pop-ups as well .... the indiginity!

              Where's the rope?

              - mindseye
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              • #22
                Popups were what made Geocities lose a lot of (hmm... what's the word?). People went to other sites offering free space because of the pop-ups, and they got rid of them, now what is the host trying to achieve with pop-ups? I thought they were discredited a long time ago as too annoying.
                "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
                -Joan Robinson

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                • #23
                  My solution for pop-ups:
                  Turn off javascript.

                  Impact on Apolyton:
                  No "light bulbs", otherwise none.

                  I always leave javascript off, unless a site I trust requires its activation...
                  No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                  • #24
                    YUK! :mad

                    Sorry Mark, Dan - it is not your fault, but - Get rid of the bloody things
                    My venerable home machine can't stand the crashes and the Lord may know what our University firewall will make of them!!!!

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                    • #25
                      Same, what they said. Quick trip to OT, make my daily thread, post a few, and I'm off to ACOL to join Saras, Roland and MtG.
                      <font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Lancer (edited June 17, 2000).]</font>
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                      • #26
                        I'll 2nd that. I can understand that it was not your decidion but please do your best to remove them.


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                        • #27
                          getting really angry...

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                          • #28
                            pop up ads are about the worst, most irritating form of internet advertising anywhere. grrrrrr. .

                            now, about changing hosts again. . WHY did you and dan say you didn't want to do it?

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                            • #29
                              I get the damn pop-ups, but no adds in them!!! Just frikin' blank boxes, and that really pushes the level of annoyance these things pose to an etirely new level.
                              It's probably just a problem with my browser, but adds or not, I still don't want the f****** pop-ups! GRRR!!!
                              <font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Kumiorava (edited June 17, 2000).]</font>

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                              • #30
                                Huey: Where can I get that program???

                                Whoever can do something about these #@%&#^ pop-ups: GET RID OF THEM!!!

                                Murgatroyd
                                One year at Apolyton with the same username and location!

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