Today's Winner!

[DrZaius]

Am I the only one getting this annoying pop-up loading for every page in the forums?

[doctorgonzo]

Ever since I have instructed Mozilla not to load images from those darn ad servers, I have all but forgotten that internet ads exist.

[Orcmonkey]

Whoa! I never tried the image blocking, just pop ups, that really does work well.

[TMAN]

I edited the HOSTS file and haven't seen a pop-up in IE since.

[Mr N8]

Yes.

[HAL9000]

I'm running AdSubtract Pro, so nope, not getting annoyed at all.

[HackinCowboy]

I get the pop-up as well. Makes me feel better though, I finally won something :)

[Nuclear Krusader]

I'm getting it too.

[Confused]

And not just this forum.
Chas

PS
TMAN could you expand upon what you did?

[Kassia]

You mean I didn't win??? :confused: :D

[Mr N8]

http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html
http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html

This is what I use on my home machine. I have to suffer with it here at work, though.

[homer15]

yes, it's very annoying. i dislike popups very much. it's not like anyone reads them... all that happens is they get closed immediately.

[Eric H.]

I use pop-up stopper. haven't seen a popup in months.

[Streams]

I get that popup too

[Sauron]

Popups are internet advertising. For instance, you can't open a newspaper without seeing a long line of advertising. So...they figured no one would read it if they put it out of the way...

[juppy]

I'm not using any pop-up stopper but I only got one pop up today. None since then.

[lpc300]

Ever since I started using Mozilla, all I have to say is, "what's a pop-up?' :)

[bailey]

thanks for the link to host, did it and now no more ads.

that winner keep me from useing pcmech, after I close it, it would come right back up with every mouse click, and stop the browser from working.

[aym]

Mozilla here too :cool:

[Battery Powered]

Why have to popup may i ask?

[TwoRails]

I'm not running anti-popup software, but I an Not getting any popups while here, at home, at PC Mechanic !!:D

[Edave]

I just started getting the "Winner" popup yesterday.Since then I have got it about 3 times.Maybe this is a good time to try Mozilla
:)

[Battery Powered]

I know Edave - i've resorted to using Opera everytime i come here, as i couldnt find an auto-popupkill function in Konqueror,

Takes the **cough** a bit, for everyone to goto all this trouble jsut for the sake of one popup, whos bright idea may i ask?

And just to clearity things, im all up for the Mech to make money from advertising and popups but use a lil java somewhere or something, only have to popup open once for each visit to the site

for example this lil beuty will load the popup once for each time someone visits, hear the ONCE :)


<script>

var popunder="http://anoying-popup-address"

var once_per_session=1

function get_cookie(Name) {
var search = Name + "="
var returnvalue = "";
if (document.cookie.length > 0) {
offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search)
if (offset != -1) { // if cookie exists
offset += search.length
// set index of beginning of value
end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset);
// set index of end of cookie value
if (end == -1)
end = document.cookie.length;
returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end))
}
}
return returnvalue;
}

function loadornot(){
if (get_cookie('popunder')==''){
loadpopunder()
document.cookie="popunder=yes"
}
}

function loadpopunder(){
win2=window.open(popunder)
win2.blur()
window.focus()
}

if (once_per_session==0)
loadpopunder()
else
loadornot()

</script>


Just an idea to save the sanity of pcmech'rs

[Battery Powered]

Sorry for that taking up so much space, im not sure why it did a line space between everything as i didnt type it like that,

oh and btw - it say php around it, i had to select that for it to show the &lt; and &gt; where infact its javescrip :)