[coax]

I absolutely despise popups. I will never click on one other than to close it. Hear that webmasters? N E V E R!!! There are NO good popups IMO. It is (also IMO) an underhanded, dirty, sleazy way of trying to force me to click on something 99% of which I DO NOT WANT! It's the bastard child of banners. And it's totally fking up the web. If your website has to go away because that is the only way you can figure out to support it, then so be it I'll find somewhere else to go.

I can handle banners. You stick 1,2 or 3 popups in my face, I will kill it. You Lose!! Sh¡t, I killed 3 just coming to these forums!!! Hah!!! Sorry man, I saw a chance to vent in this thread..

As far as killing them, I also went to d/l.com one day in utter frustration. I ended up d/l a bunch of popup killer progz, including the Popup Killer you mentioned GrapeApe. Not sure why, but I ended up installing one called POW! made by AnalogX.

Just curious Grape, in your experience with Popup Killer does it already kill alot of popups on installation or do you have to "train" it? As in add the popups as you go. That's my only gripe about Pow! is that you pretty much have to train it as you go. Click on the systray icon, clicking add/delete popups, then double-clicking the offending popup name & hit ok & it closes it immediately & every time you encounter that one again.

But, the upside is, that if your surfing habits are somewhat repetitive (you go to alot of the same sites) once you add the stuff it kills them dead on sight.

Dorrie, win9x also has a hosts file in the Windows directory. It can be edited with notepad easily. It's originally called hosts.sam & basically after you edit it adding the offending sites, you save as "hosts" with NO extension. After you save it look in the Windows dir with explorer to make sure it didn't save with a .txt extension. If it did rename it to "hosts" or it won't work.

I had found a website in the past that had hosts files already made up that you could d/l & stick in your windows dir but I don't remember where it is. My only problem with it was alot of the banners would be red x's and so it made the web pages look like sh¡t.

Anyway, my 2¢... =)


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[This message has been edited by coax (edited February 20, 2002).]