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| | | Yesterday I checked out an Osprey report on MSNBC and was pommeled by a new pop-up ad. I had already read about half the article when the screen slowly "morphed" into an ad... completely obscuring the browser so that I could not click "stop" or (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: New annoying pop-up ad —Matthew Gerber
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| | | | | (...) Nope...but I would like to see it. Can you supply a link? (I went to MSNBC and searched "osprey", let a couple of stories sit in my browser for a while, but nothing ever happened). I'm assuming this is just a Java applet, but I would like to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: New annoying pop-up ad —Jon Palmer
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| | | | | "Kirby Warden" <inourimage@msn.com> wrote in message news:GotrCE.K5K@lugnet.com... (...) new (...) under (...) Thats disgusting. (...) I block ads 24/7 but a few times my ad killer has been off (or I've been on someone elses computer) I have seen (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: New annoying pop-up ad —Jon Palmer
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| | | | | | A few more things I forgot. You can also use many of these programs to block ads elsewhere. I use the adsubtract server for Weatherbug and Kazaa as well. I think you can have AIM run through a proxy as well but I just use DeadAim instead. The (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: New annoying pop-up ad —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) I haven't seen that, but I did run across one the other day that started out as a fixed-size banner ad (chosen from a set of banners for the page I was viewing, I'm sure) that expanded itself to about double the 'fixed' size of the banner (...) (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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