Pop-up ads

Saturday, August 18, 2001 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Anyone know of a site that has a TON of pop-up ads? Want to really put WebBlinds's SmartBlocker through its paces.
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MobiusCo
Reply #1 Saturday, August 18, 2001 3:20 PM
do a porn search and you will find thousand of sites with never ending pop-up ads....
or go to any geocities site

Snowman
Reply #2 Saturday, August 18, 2001 3:36 PM
popups... what's popups?!?!?! (said the smart user of iNet-Tabs)

craeonics
Reply #3 Saturday, August 18, 2001 6:56 PM
Porn sites will work, warez sites are even better.

kith
Reply #4 Saturday, August 18, 2001 7:12 PM
Any chance you could add a line of code to WebBlinds that would specifically block pop up ads for X10 cameras. Ohh they are annoying.....

Bill

GreenReaper
Reply #5 Saturday, August 18, 2001 7:41 PM
But so cheap and convenient! For just $89 you can ge>

rmiles7721
Reply #6 Saturday, August 18, 2001 8:02 PM
x10 kicks ass. Fortunately you can use their xray-vision program (free) with usb webcams, thus NOT spening $89+ on their cameras . Other than that, I have several rooms running off of X-10 modules.

Tarkus
Reply #7 Saturday, August 18, 2001 9:29 PM
Place the following in your hosts file to block the X10 ads:

ads.x10.com 127.0.0.1

More info on the hosts file can be found here:

http://www.smartin-designs.com/
http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/

Frogboy
Reply #8 Saturday, August 18, 2001 9:51 PM
What is X10?

migellito
Reply #9 Sunday, August 19, 2001 12:29 AM
x 10s are these crazy little webcams they advertise via 'pop-unders.' you don't know it's there until you close your browser with the close box, then lo and behold, it's not really closed because there's one last window - the x10 ad.. i'm sure some ad agency told it would be 'dramatic' ;]

Frogboy
Reply #10 Sunday, August 19, 2001 12:31 AM
According to MediaMetrix, x10.com is in the top 10 websites in traffic. So it must be working!

migellito
Reply #11 Sunday, August 19, 2001 1:04 AM
top 10?! holy catz!

Tarkus
Reply #12 Sunday, August 19, 2001 11:19 AM
Depends on what you mean by working. They're only measuring traffic, which is forced upon the user by their aggressive marketing campaign. It's not measuring clicks by actual interested consumers. Anybody could be top 10 if they wanted to spend the money to place their ads everywhere. I'm not impressed. I also think they're generating a tremendous amount of ill will.

www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092788,00.html

Fa65*BFh
Reply #13 Monday, August 20, 2001 1:36 AM
Good tip Tarkus... i knew about the hosts file since long, cause of all that PPP and router sh*t, but never thinked of using it to redirect the web servers to local host

Buzz_Hog
Reply #14 Monday, August 20, 2001 5:12 PM
Well, considering they are also linked with the msn homepage that's not suprising....

x10 is comming close on my list to Sam Jain of e-Front...

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