Popup ads. Why bother?
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I don't understand why sites still persist with pop-up ads. All the major browsers block them by default, yet advertisers still try. It just boggles the mind
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I blacklist any entity that uses popup ads to advertise itself. The reason is simple: no reputable company appears in popups on legitimate sites anymore. If they want attention that badly, then there has got to be something fishy going on. That's my impression of it.
So the creationist says: Everything must have a designer. God designed everything. I say: Why is God the only exception? Why not make the "designs" (like man) exceptions and make God a creation of man?
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Add popup adds to codeproject and you'll see how many times it gets clicked :)
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Giorgi Dalakishvili wrote:
Add popup adds to codeproject and you'll see how many times it gets clicked [Smile]
... much your total add revenue goes down due to readers retaliating and ad blocking everything on your site.
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I don't understand why sites still persist with pop-up ads. All the major browsers block them by default, yet advertisers still try. It just boggles the mind
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Why do spammers still send email trying to convince you to enlarge body parts? Because some tiny percentage still fall for it and thus earn the seller and the web site some money. We either never see the pop-up or eventually find sites that are better behaved. Yahoo lost me to Google for a home page years ago when they started those f-ing floating ads wandering around the screen.
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(1) What's the percentile of minor browsers? (2) I have IE7 and googe toolbar, and these two together already make it an adventure to get to a popup I want. So sometimes I have to take down all the shields, and remember to put them on again. I've underlined the weak spot, in case the reader is weak at spotting it.
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(2) I have IE7 and googe toolbar, and these two together already make it an adventure to get to a popup I want. So sometimes I have to take down all the shields, and remember to put them on again.
And that is the question - the tools that were built for good were used instead for evil. Imagine if I wanted to preview this post before I submitted it...
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I always have my popup blocker on, but every now and then I get a popup for screensavers. Wierd.
"Pigs don't know pigs stink."
justfunnin wrote:
I always have my popup blocker on, but every now and then I get a popup for screensavers. Wierd.
I think that popup may actually be living on your PC rather than on the internet
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BonshatS wrote:
Shhh! They'll hear you and think of something more intrusive and obnoxious.
They already have: Gateway pages that won't let you enter unless you do what they want. Yesterday, I clicked a link to go deeper into a site, and the linked page was overridden by a page insisting that the page needed Firefox to be able to load. It did the same thing with all links. Suspicious that this could be something to do with exploits in Fox that IE doesn't suffer from, I fired up Firefox in a VM, went to the page, got the actual, unredirected address, and opened it in IE. Needless to say, it opened fine. I think we've got a lot of that sort of crap to look froward to. Open-source evangelists will find ways to make it "useful", and marketers will happily pick up the torch. I shouldn't have too much trouble finding the site again, if anyone wants to see the future of pains in the arse; I was searching for a TV show called "The Strangerer", and there wern't too many results.
Heh. Once I followed a link to a game that might have been interesting had I been able to find out what it was about. The gateway page asked me for my birthday, to verify my age. Now, I prefer to do things via keyboard shortcut, so I hit 4, TAB, 3, 3, TAB, and began scrolling down to the appropriate year. As soon as I hit down, the script sent the data. Apparently, if you put your age to be last year, they don't consider you old enough to see their website. Even if you are somehow managing to use a computer at a year of age. Since the age verification was cookied, I soon got tired of trying to find the right cookie, and decided that they obviously didn't really want my potential business / interest, after all.
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Heh. Once I followed a link to a game that might have been interesting had I been able to find out what it was about. The gateway page asked me for my birthday, to verify my age. Now, I prefer to do things via keyboard shortcut, so I hit 4, TAB, 3, 3, TAB, and began scrolling down to the appropriate year. As soon as I hit down, the script sent the data. Apparently, if you put your age to be last year, they don't consider you old enough to see their website. Even if you are somehow managing to use a computer at a year of age. Since the age verification was cookied, I soon got tired of trying to find the right cookie, and decided that they obviously didn't really want my potential business / interest, after all.
Trevortni wrote:
Apparently, if you put your age to be last year, they don't consider you old enough to see their website.
our elected idiots decided anything potentially interesting on the web isn't appropriate for preteens (who haven't figured out how to lie about their age)Even if you are somehow managing to use a computer at a year of age.fixed this for you.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Heh. Once I followed a link to a game that might have been interesting had I been able to find out what it was about. The gateway page asked me for my birthday, to verify my age. Now, I prefer to do things via keyboard shortcut, so I hit 4, TAB, 3, 3, TAB, and began scrolling down to the appropriate year. As soon as I hit down, the script sent the data. Apparently, if you put your age to be last year, they don't consider you old enough to see their website. Even if you are somehow managing to use a computer at a year of age. Since the age verification was cookied, I soon got tired of trying to find the right cookie, and decided that they obviously didn't really want my potential business / interest, after all.
Trevortni wrote:
Once I followed a link to a game that might have been interesting had I been able to find out what it was about. The gateway page asked me for my birthday, to verify my age.
You've got to be eighteen to play it? Sounds like my kind of game!
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Trevortni wrote:
Once I followed a link to a game that might have been interesting had I been able to find out what it was about. The gateway page asked me for my birthday, to verify my age.
You've got to be eighteen to play it? Sounds like my kind of game!
No, you've got to be eighteen to even be aware it exists. You probably have to be, like, 73 to actually play it. I don't know where they've got that age limit set; I wasn't old enough to get that far. Hmm, now I'm thinking Paranoia. It's like, having Red Security Clearance, I didn't have high enough (Orange) Security Clearance to learn that it takes Yellow Security Clearance to find out that the game itself actually requires Green Security Clearance. Of course, now I'm to be scheduled for termination. I hope I don't burn in colors over my Security Clearance when they kill me, or else they might have to execute my next clone too.
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Judah Himango wrote:
outdated browsers such as IE6
You call IE6 a browser? It's just a program that lets you download and install FireFox :)
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I don't understand why sites still persist with pop-up ads. All the major browsers block them by default, yet advertisers still try. It just boggles the mind
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Well that is the difference between normal user and developers. When I browse in internet, I ignore all ads that somehow went through the blockers. Some one must point the advertisment with finger to make me pay attention over it. When my sister browse the first thing she sees in the site is ads. And she click over them... So the main change is not in the browsers, not in the blockers, not in ads. Actually it's you who blocks and ignores the ads. And if you cannot ignore them, they irratating you, so you install a blocker. Welcome to the long way from real user to computer specialist. ;)