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[chaobell]

Here sir we have example of popup ads that make grown techs cry.



I hate these things. The fake Windows error messages weren't working anymore, apparently, so they took it to the command prompt. GRAR.

Now. I know these are bogus. Y'all know these are bogus. Joe Luser does not know these are bogus, and off he goes to click the button, and we end up having to extricate the crap he ends up downloading from his system.

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas is five minutes alone with one of these ad designers and a baseball bat. I have been a good girl and not killed too many any lusers this year.

Love,
Me

Comments

[masonstone.livejournal.com]

Whoever created those idiotic ads deserves to die. No ifs ands or buts, just a large baseball bat directly aimed at the SOB's brain.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

I call them hackers who have sold out. Rat bastards! These damn pop up adds are making my life hell. Aside from the fact I almost typed through a gator pop up and accepted it becuase I was typing away and not looking at the screen. That will teach me!

[wildkard.livejournal.com]

I know there are lawsuits going on regarding the "windows error messages" and specifically gator.com . Where's the lawyer-sharks waiting for this one?

And as I explained to my father yesterday "DOS typically doesn't have an okay button and show up with an Internet Explorer icon".

Of course, my computer is also broadcasting an IP address and is not JOE3K compatible... so I should buy all this snake oil to fix 'er right up!

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

I use Mozilla, and I've left popups for the most part enabled. Mozilla's nature is that the most vile things you can do with IE are disabled, and I've selectively blocked the adservers that have misleading or otherwise unethical ads. The adservers that have shown themselves trustworthy still get my impressions, but the shady ones I shall never have to see again.