On Feb 7, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
> > Endless problems with little windows on screen > > I am not smart enough to know exactly what this is, but here goes: > > 1. A small square of about 3 inches comes bouncing across the > screen, I have to stop and click the X button to make it go away. > > Then on another site: > > 2. A 2 inch window keeps coming up from below the lower right edge > of the main window, repeatedly clicking on it's X simply will not > rid me of this irritation. > > Is this a low form of a virus? > > They are all ads for one thing or another. > > Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. > > Pop up is set, but still these come. Welcome to the World Wide Web. This is part of the long running battle between advertisers and developers. The advertisers will almost always be a step ahead of the developers and what users will install. The main reason is the motivation. Advertisers are motivated by the money to be made, and the developers are motivated by by the annoyances created by the advertisers. And cold, hard cash will almost always trump annoyance. The hard thing to remember here is that those annoying windows are put there by people paying the web sites you visit to allow them to provide you with "free" content, like the commercials on free television. If no one either sees them (advertisers pay per viewing of the ad) or clicks through (pay per click), then the content providers make no money from the site, and have trouble keeping the site running. See the following post from slashdot.org: > Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore: > An anonymous reader writes "If you've noticed that pop-up ad > windows seem to have made an unwelcome return into your life, it's > because they're not using the same easily blockable technology as > before. The Adimpact system uses DHTML to annoy you, and there's no > immediate prospect of a solution." at: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/05/1410230 http://tinyurl.com/d8fxwg Doing the following will help some, but nothing is 100% effective, and the following may block some content on the sites you are trying to visit. Turn on block pop ups install Ad blocker software or add ons (I use Ad Block Plus on Firefox) Install a "no script" add on and turn off Java script and Java In addition, the latest developer overnight builds tend to have the most up to date blocking capabilities and can help block these at the possible risks of being a little more unstable or certain features not working. Dan swears by the latest Webkit builds, and I tend to use the latest Firefox overnight build, currently at beta for Firefox 3.1. Don't know if that helped, but at least you know you are not alone. Len --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
