E-Bay Pop-up Ad Window ...

[connorkimbro]

The Proximitron does sound like a VERY good idea. Does anyone else need to know where to get it at?

[TCO]

Markos, it's not just an issue of one pop-up. The ads also seem to mess with having multiple explorer windows open.

It is bad news...

[Bkeela]

I've got better things to do than wank around emailing E-Bay, it would be easier for me to avoid this forum. So MarkG, don't give us this crap that you can't do anything, this is in your court.

Bkeela.

[Sprayber]

This thing is seriously beginning to piss me off. Like I said before, advertising is fine but these pop-up are the scum of advertising. Surly no one goes to a site just because it pops up on your screen. Ebay can go to hell before I go to their site because of these pop-ups.

[MarkG]

as we have said already in the past, we dont have direct control in the ads.

on the specific ad, i believe that if you dont close it, it wont pop up on you again

and if you're using to any kind of program for more than just killing this pop up, all i can say is thank you for killing this site...

[Bkeela]

You will therefore have to reap what you sow. This site is already dead if pop-up's become the order of the day.

Bkeela

[Dis]

any computer programmer that designs a pop-up window should be shot

[Dis]

and that f*cker pops up like every minute now.

I just closed it, and it is back again.

This is taking up bandwith and my computers RAM memory (luckily I have 256 MG's )

[Dis]

OK mark I am closing it.

It just popped up again when I opened this thread window. This out of control.

And how does ad-blocking softwar kill the site? You get paid whether the ads are displayed on our computers or not. Those who get the ad software aren't clicking on the ads anyways. So the hits on the ads sites will be unaffected.

If this goes on I may have to get it. Maybe multiple windows is a problem. I have ACOL and Apolytong windows open right now. And now I have E bay soon as I opened up this post window.

It seems to come up anytime I hit post reply to open up a reply window. Or to edit my post like now it just came up again.


These f*cking a$$holes should be paying ME for taking up MY computer's resources If I was on my old computer, it didn't have enough memory to have more than 2 windows open. It would slow up too bad.
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Dissident (edited March 08, 2001).]</font>

[MarkG]

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1>
</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Dissident on 03-08-2001 02:50 AM</font>
OK mark I am closing it.

It just popped up again when I opened this thread window. This out of control.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>i suggested NOT to close it!

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1>
</font>And how does ad-blocking softwar kill the site? You get paid whether the ads are displayed on our computers or not.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>who told you that? if the image is not shown on your computer it cant be counted

and if you ever never click an ad then one day the wonderfull company will simply look at their click-trough numbers and decide to go find a better site to show their ads to(as many have)....

[Midshipman]

You guys need to lay off Mark.

He does one helluva job with this site, as is proved by the fact that you come here. Whenever a forumer has a problem, he deals with it as promptly as he can. He does his best to make sure that the site runs great for everyone.

However, he is not God. There are somethings out of his control, and for a guy who does a great job, pestering him over somethingthat he doesn't control takes away from his valuable time

[Scouse Gits]

Mark - do you have a suitable e-address at e-bay so that our complaints will be heard to the greatest effect - I had, until today, avoided this dreadful ad - but now cannot seem to get it out of my screen - I shall certainly complain to e-bay once I know who to scream at!!

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[drake]

It wouldnt be so bad if there was a cookie or something that told the window only to load once. Not every goddam time you change the page.......

It's apparent bittching about it won't help, so I won't.

[connorkimbro]

whine whine whine mark. ban me if you want, but i'm using proximitron.

if you don't give a **** about me, i don't give a **** about you.

[DanQ]

Everyone is being extremely critical of Markos and myself on this issue when we're not the ones you should be talking to, and no, that doesn't mean go to GameStats (me included). Some of you have also gone off the deep end, responding purely out of emotion as opposed to logic -- this is not to say that this is wrong, but rather is destructive.

We too are Web surfers. We hate pop-up banner ads just as much as you do, but when you're a webmaster of a site you have to stop and think about what could be if you didn't have them and be thankful that you have at least some advertising revenue covering your costs so you don't have to worry about it. Thus, you concentrate on what you really want to be doing when you work on your site: content building.

We have had this discussion before.

If you have a concern to voice about this, go directly to UGO and tell them exactly the same things that you're telling us. If they got enough complaints, they would grow concerned that their affiliates will/are losing traffic and they in turn are too.

See also my response in <A HREF="http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum20/HTML/001375.html">this thread</A>.

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Dan; Apolyton CS