SHAME of the full-screen pop-ups

hamblettamaud

add here your list of companies who have used intrusive full-screen pop-ups that slow down your computer.

instead of allowing their nasty, intrusive advertising to have the effect they want, this is your chance to let others know --- so that they too can bouycott them.

first is VODAFONE - i will never buy any of their products
second - ARGOS - another company that pays for intrustive full-screen pop-ups - don't use Argos. their cheap and nasty adverts have the opposite effect.

hamblettamaud

(by the way, if anyone knows how to get rid these full-screen pop-ups from your computer, please let me know. the usual means - trojan search, pop-up filter, virus checker - do not work with these awful pop-ups.)

Bongedone

I don't get any full screen pop ups from either of those companies. Actually don't get full screen pop ups.

Weird.

Do you have a website that causes one?

Halloway

hamblettamaud wrote: »

add here your list of companies who have used intrusive full-screen pop-ups that slow down your computer.

instead of allowing their nasty, intrusive advertising to have the effect they want, this is your chance to let others know --- so that they too can bouycott them.

first is VODAFONE - i will never buy any of their products
second - ARGOS - another company that pays for intrustive full-screen pop-ups - don't use Argos. their cheap and nasty adverts have the opposite effect.

Eh? What on earth are you wittering about? I don't get pop-ups from either site and even if I did they wouldn't slow my machine up. Are you sure you are not confusing Vodafone and Argos with cheap !!!!!! sites (easily done)?

prowla

I use a program called popup killer, which (ahem) kills popups...

sporedude

Has this thread got a point?

Halloway

sporedude wrote: »

Has this thread got a point?

Well it's enabled me to vent a bit of spleen.

dealer_wins

Try using Firefox with the Adblock plus and no-script extensions. You will soon forgot what adverts on the net were like

hollydays

Halloway wrote: »

Well it's enabled me to vent a bit of spleen.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

hamblettamaud

dealer_wins wrote: »

Try using Firefox with the Adblock plus and no-script extensions. You will soon forgot what adverts on the net were like

hi, dealerwins. and thanks for the reply. i already use firefox and adblock plus, but how do i get the no-script extensions? there doesn't seem to be an option for it.

everyone else - i hope you don't get the dreaded pop-ups like i do. i never visit !!!!!! sites, i have permanently updated antivirus and security so god knows how these pop-ups get on my internet. but if you do get the pop-ups, you will certainly know about it. and i hope you come back to this thread to see how to get rid of them.

(and i'm giving up on listing every single site that uses these pop-ups otherwise i'd be here all day. i'll just bouycott them on my own.)

hamblettamaud

hi, dealerwins, i found out how to get no-script, but thanks for the reply. hopefully this will help me - and any others who have this same problem.