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| 17018 | 2001-08-15 03:34:00 | Does anyone know the best free program for blocking those annoying popups I currently have Zonealarm, cookie cop and Naviscope, but I still get popups fom the EZ board message boards |
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| 17019 | 2001-08-15 04:26:00 | heres a free ad blocking prog Not sure if it does popups though http://www.adsubtract.com/ |
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| 17020 | 2001-08-15 04:47:00 | The best FREE way of blocking most of the popups is to disable JavaScript in your browser. | Guest (0) | ||
| 17021 | 2001-08-15 04:52:00 | have a look for 'The Proxomitron' | Guest (0) | ||
| 17022 | 2001-08-15 07:33:00 | ZoneAlarm is a firewall & won't stop popups, as to for Cookie & Ad blocking programs. Popups are not only annoying but as you have probably found they can also crash your system. Whilst I recognise that popups have their place, the fact that web sites & advertisers are overusing them to the point of users wanting to strangle them, there is much to be said for blocking them entirely. The annoying habits of some sites to change startpages & security issues also force many users to bog their systrems down with necessary but combersome software. For stealth surfing with no popups, cookies, history, java script or IP address tracking, try surfing through the following free site. Make this your homepage or add bookmarks through this site & you won't have to install software - just click on your bookmark/favourites & configure for blocking popups etc. www.safeweb.com |
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| 17023 | 2001-08-15 11:41:00 | Opera and Mozilla (so probably NS 6) let you disable popups etc. The problem with disabling JavaScript is there are many stupid sites that need it on to get in. | Guest (0) | ||
| 17024 | 2001-08-15 21:21:00 | Webwasher is a free program that effectively blocks pop ups, bad cookies (good ones let through) and other junk. It will speed up surfing since up to 40% of unwanted extra material is filtered out. Webwasher also has good user reviews at CNET.COM - the download section (use the search facility). Get Webwasher at WEBWASHER.COM or on CNET.COM. I have been using it for 10 days and am satisfied, although sometimes the occasional bad cookie slips through, all pop ups are gone and surf speed is up. | Guest (0) | ||
| 17025 | 2001-08-16 08:23:00 | After trial & Error I have found using both Adsubtract & Popup Killer -www.software.xfx.net/support.htm are the best. | Guest (0) | ||
| 17026 | 2001-08-16 23:41:00 | Another test. Please ignore. |
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| 17027 | 2001-08-17 03:11:00 | As the Advertising Manager of IDGNet, I'm a little disappointed to see visitors to our sites wanting to 'turn off cookies' and download software that stops from seeing advertising. We here at IDGNet, have policies in place to ensure the user experience comes first, while allowing us to earn an income to keep our sites (and services such as PressF1) going. We do not allow pop-up ads on our sites, in fact we do not allow anything that interferes with the user experience, unless it is user activated. We keep the file sizes of our banners and 4th columns (skyscrapers), to a minimum to ensure they download quickly and we also encourage advertisers to promote relevant and interesting products and services to our audience. The advertising is not placed amongst editorial, and to date, we've had excellent response to our advertising, which indicates a lot of you find it relevant. Cookies allow us to enhance your user experience, by ensuring the parts of the site you like the most are maintained efficiently and enhanced - this side of cookie use has NOTHING to do with advertising. Cookies allow us to tell how many people visited our site in a month, and which parts of our site got the most visits. It also allows us to target ads to a particular audience (eg, those who use Netscape rather than IE, or those who are looking at the site between 10am and 1pm), so that the ads you do see are relevant and not the online ad form of spam. It can also allow us to ensure you only see an ad once, rather that 50 times - who's against that?! If you turn cookies off, turn javascript off, or download software to stop seeing ads or pop-ups etc, you're essentially affecting your own experience of a LOT of sites out there, and not just the advertising - a lot of sites use javascript in their content. Most sites use cookies and advertising in a very responsible manner. We agree there are also a lot of cowboys out there that abuse these things. But to be fair to the rest of us, whose only goal is to gain your trust and loyalty (otherwise we don't have a site), and provide good quality information and services, please believe that we have your best interests and user experience, at heart. If you would like to know more about the IDG Online Network policy on cookies etc, please check out our privacy policy. Regards Kerry Dodds Online Campaign Director IDG Network of Sites |
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