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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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16 February 2003 - 7:27 pm
I've reached my limit regarding pop-up and pop-under and pop-wherever ads. But I haven't been able to find a good pop-up blocker. My current solution is a program called PopUpStopper. Its main feature is its cost: free. But it has the nasty habit of preventing pop-ups that I want, like the comment link on this page. In order to get things like that to load, I have to ctrl+click, which is a bit tiresome. So if any of you have used a pop-up blocker with Windows and Internet Explorer before, please let me know. I'm mainly looking for a program that will intelligently decide* which pop-ups to block, without resorting to a whitelist or some other cop-out method that makes me do all the work. Free is good, but I'm willing to pay a reasonable price for a good product.
* My gut feeling about pop-ups is that one mouse-click should only result in one webpage being loaded. I think this is the only rule you need to eliminate pop-ups. You just have to decide on a metric for deciding which window to open if multiple ones are spawned. If I knew how to program add-ins for Internet Explorer, I'd give this a go myself. But I don't, so I need to find someone else's product.
Posted by on 16 February 2003 at 7:25 PM
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Check that page to make your own. Good luck.
Posted by Z on 16 February 2003 - 9:40 PM
Crapness. Try again: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebgen/html/bho.asp
Posted by Z on 16 February 2003 - 9:43 PM
The other option (which you might not like) is to try a different browser. Phoenix (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-release-notes.html) is pretty good at this, but isn't as crappy as Mozilla.
Posted by Charlie on 16 February 2003 - 9:54 PM
I use a program called Pop Up Cop. Its like $20, but it is the best $20 that I have ever spent. I don't even remember the last time I saw a pop up, but it doesn't block things that I want. There is a 30 day evaluation period too, so I would give it a shot. Just search google for pop up cop.
Posted by Nathan on 16 February 2003 - 10:59 PM
Okay, pop-up cop wins. Hands down.
Posted by david on 17 February 2003 - 1:13 AM