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Re: New annoying pop-up ad
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Date:
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Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:57:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kirby Warden wrote:
> Yesterday I checked out an Osprey report on MSNBC and was pommeled by a new
> pop-up ad.
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> 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 "back" or even click off to the side of the ad to "push" it under
> the browser. I was forced to simply wait for the ad to "morph" back into
> the article, thereby having control of my browser returned to me.
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> Has anyone else been plagued with this new style pop-up?
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 space, without rearranging the page-content
at all. This meant that the ad covered the content I wanted to see.
The ad never shrank back down; I stuck around long enough, it should
have if it was going to do so.
Grr.
Steve
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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