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"Pop Up Ads :("

We have all experienced these annoying things. The companies that are using pop up adverts say this:

"They are good ways of advertising products and guarantee people will at least look at the product"

They only guarantee this because they stuck in are faces and when we close them they just keep coming back.

One of the things you can't fail to notice these days are the amount of annoying adverts that try to sell you anything from books to CD's. The latest trend to hit the web in this way is pop-up adverts that suddenly appear, or fly around your screen and putting you off what you were originally doing, and worst of all annoying you.

I had one today I was loading up my email account and suddenly there was this Viking woman floating around my screen with bright coloured backgrounds, then the worst bit came, the cheapest way of advertising, she began to sing. It was horrible and there was no way of stopping it unless I closed down the site I wanted, I had to wait until it was over.
The Worst advertisers have to be E-bay because they don’t just load up a small window but a huge full screen window, that’s wrong and annoying. It slows down the site I actually want from loading.

Now I know I can buy a program which gets rid of all these pop ups, but why should I when its not my fault that a random company has to advertise like this.

Yeah it is quite good. Looks like someone spent ages making their perfetic little pop up ad, then bang its been hit by a missile sent from google.

Gígž wrote:
> Yey! Its working, thanks for all the advice. It has now blocked three,
> yes three, pop up things! So long pop up Adverts. :)

WHat I find good is the little explosion piccy that comes up whenever a pop up is blocked.

It's the small things in life :)

Cheers :D

Download whatever you want, then run it rhough Ad-Aware.

Best way to check.

Mines from google and its actually working now. :^)

I use this free thing to stop all spam links/pop ups etc.

Got it from Download.com and its called Hijackthis, which sounds dodgy but it's ok.

praying mantis wrote:
>Go to Google.com and download the Google toolbar, it stops pop-up ads.

thats what i did, and it does work!

Yey! Its working, thanks for all the advice. It has now blocked three, yes three, pop up things! So long pop up Adverts. :)

Icarus wrote:
> Downloading shareware will probably mean even more popups, this time
> from the program itself.

If you get the garbage, yes. But I'm constantly amazed by the amount of totally free, high quality, useful software out there. Pop-ups, spam, viruses etc can all be stopped by the careful user - if you suffer from any you've only got your own laziness/carelessness to blame.

The Google toolbar seems to work depending on the machine it operates on and the volume of pop-ups sent at it...