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| Thread ID: 34597 | 2003-06-18 07:07:00 | Few Questions... | caffy (2665) | Press F1 |
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| 153308 | 2003-06-18 11:20:00 | > I personally would not recommend installing a popup > stopper as they can interfere with loading of some > sites. I don't understand all the concern with trying > to avoid the occasional one that appears, it is not > as if they are appearing with every website and they > are easily deleted. Isnt ignorance Bliss ;-) Phoenix allows you to unblock ANY site, preferrably the one you're at with two clicks of a button! Dead easy! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 153309 | 2003-06-18 12:05:00 | I use popup killer, great program but im not sure if its the same as your killer popup???. If you goto perferences, Detection tab, and unselect "Smart!" option, it wont block anything unless you add it to your black list. :) |
Blue_face (1148) | ||
| 153310 | 2003-06-18 14:09:00 | Popup killers are for people who regularly visit cheap porn sites that can't afford to pay their server fees. Sorry to say it. ahahaha :^O If you happen upon the odd pop-up, you just make a mouse click. Simple as that. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 153311 | 2003-06-18 14:26:00 | I use a program called Proximitron,been using it for a couple years and would highly recomend it. It doesnt just stop pop-ups,but 99 percent of adds never show up,Makes the 56k blues a whole lot easier to bear,it also freezes gifs,kills sound embedded in pages and a few dozen other things that slow down the internet experience. It in no way stops links or the user from opening more windows,and it can be bypassed with one mouse click to let-through features on a page the user may want. hell,i had it set on bypass the other day and was quite surprised by the amount of adds on this very forum,i had never seen them before,now i dont see them once again and im better for it. Works well. Fully configurable. Uses no resources. And its FREE. |
metla (154) | ||
| 153312 | 2003-06-18 14:35:00 | Now this is interesting(ok,it is to me) A couple weeks back i was all high and mighty(who?...me?) because my ie open in new window always opened maximised,I put this down to me on one hand being super talented,good looking and clever and on the other hand because i had changed the shortcut properties to allways open ie maximised. I was informed that the open maximised didnt apply to the situation at hand. But just looking through the Proximitron settings there seems to be a setting checked called 'stop browser window resizing' Which i presume to mean it forces ie to remeber what size i like my new window. hmmmm.....my puter time says 6.12am,that cant be right.... oh well,no one prolly follows that dribble. |
metla (154) | ||
| 153313 | 2003-06-18 17:22:00 | Is the sole aim of proxomitron to stop ads?? It doesn't provide any aditional security/privacy by masking your original IP address from websites etc??? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 153314 | 2003-06-18 21:20:00 | Only two clicks Chilling silently to unblock a site, that is if you realize what is causing the problem but only one click to remove the popup, that is progress indeed . I don't know what sites you visit but I can surf for hours without ever having one appear . The obsession with popups, ad blocking and site blocking with firewalls and hosts files is verging on the ridiculous and only causes more complications for many people who don't understand what they are doing or how to manage these programs and have only installed them because someone has suggested they need them . Web sites require advertisements to remain viable and there would no doubt be complaints if payment was required for access to sites which are currently free . Is this what you want for the future AOL Time Warner to Block TV and Mag Ads After receiving a warm reception from customers to its software which blocks internet pop-up ads, AOL Time Warner announced today that its TV networks and magazines will now come with ad-blocking hardware . All Time Warner Cable customers will receive TiVo-like set-top boxes which will fast forward through all commercials . And subscribers to the company's family of magazines will receive a small pair of scissors with which they can trim out display ads . As a result of these changes, all advertisers have cancelled their contracts with AOL Time Warner, and the price of monthly AOL service is now $459, basic cable is $879 and a subscription to Time magazine is $349 per year . In after-hours trading last night, AOL stock was used to clean up coffee spills . |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 153315 | 2003-06-18 22:18:00 | Terrible about AOL that only leaves 3billion sites to vist with our pop up stopper;) | Thomas (1820) | ||
| 153316 | 2003-06-18 22:32:00 | I simply hate surfing on the gateway due to the huge amounts of Ad's from Doubleclick etc, and the amount of popups you get.. even PressF1 has that survey (Which I've only seen once.. on a Win32 PC mind you..). Two clicks to unlock things like Orcon that load the sign-up in a popup window.. other than that, MozillaFirebird kills the lot, and you will honestly never know how damn bad it is until you've experienced free surfing for a good month, then to go back to IE! What about popunders.. and popups that are much harder to close, like feetman.com's one? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 153317 | 2003-06-19 05:17:00 | On a different note...Chill maybe you can answer this. I downloaded Mozilla firebird. And tried to run it, but it can't access the net or anything? :p | PoWa (203) | ||
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