From: Dan Clemmensen (dgc@cox.rr.com)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 11:03:31 MST
spike66 wrote:
> jeff davis wrote:
>
>> I hate pop-up windows. Hate them. Wish serious harm
>> to the spawn of satan responsible for this
>> abomination.
>> Does anyone else feel this way?
>>
> It is a evil low-down wicked wretched {insert Davisian string
> of over the top adjectives here} morally reprehensible act to ever
> buy anything from any pop-up ad. If no one ever ever bought
> anything or took any action because of pop up ads, and perhaps
> boycotted any company that used them, then this curse would
> go away. spike
>
>
The washingtonpost.com site recently tried popup ads. I sent
an e-mail to the web master saying in effect that I was willing
to tolerate the old format, but not the popups, and that I would
implement software to silently suppress the popups and that if I
were forced to go to all that trouble I would also suppress the
in-line ads. Apparently I was not the only objector: the popups
have apparently gone away.
You do not have to put up with popup ads. If they annoy you enough,
do the research to learn how to suppress them. Please note: the
web sites you use need to make money somehow. Apparently, someone
somewhere believes that these popups are worth real dollars. I
don't see it myself. If all of us band together and convince the
advertisers we do not want popups, then the advertisers will quit
using them. But they may also quit paying for web advertising
altogether, and we may begin losing sites.
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