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Pop-Up Ads - Destroy and Destroy Even More.

― Tom, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Say, have you seen the ad for this GREAT new camera? Oh WOW! Etc.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That bloody camera. However, cool how it switched from pre- Sept11 "You can spy on girls in the shower" to post-Sept11 "The security of your home is paramount".

― Tom, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can spy on girls in the shower

Tom, I think that was only ever the coded message.

― Nick, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

not coded at all - haven't you guys spotted the one with the chick in the pool getting all 'oh, let me feel my WARM WET BODY'?

― maura, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you have a community website you love, and it's in financial straits and there's a real possibility you could lose it, and if pop- up ads are a strong revenue source, then you put up with it. Worse things happen at sea.

― Mark C, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(bearing in mind I'm only new, and this has probably been posted before, here's another monke y to punch...)

― Mark C, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but there are better ways - e.g. code your HTML simply by hand and shrink the images (in quality not size), and you can get many more hits out of both your bandwidth and filespace. other things like not having a front page with nothing on besides the site name/image - you're paying bandwidth for every single visitor to load a useless page. at least stick the 'what's new' section on there or something.

Phil Greenspun has a few ideas for making money via links, and subtle adverts (e.g. notice the adverts for cameras on his photo.net site) in his book, the entire text of which is available online here.

― m jemmeson, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

for users, you can block banner ads, pop-ups etc. i use naviscope.com which is pretty handy. it also shows your current connection speed, exactly what pages, images etc, are being downloaded, and lots more. animated GIF adverts are a curse. i think someone in online advertising just said something on the lines of banner ads being the biggest mistake the industry made

― m jemmeson, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

worse was an ad on britannica.com where the screen locked up three cars drove across the page folowed by a shiny new buick, over all the text and everything, couldn't do anything about it for about 20seconds

― Ed, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

webwasher is also great for getting rid of ads, popups etc.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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