Evil popups are back

Posted on February 23, 2005 by Tim

Grrr. I thought we’d seen the last of these, but I had noticed the odd popup lately, in both Firefox and Safari. It seems that those dirty advertisers have found ways to get around the popup-blockers present in most modern browsers by default (and IE with XPSP2 or a third-party add-on).

Veerle Pieters has a great quote from a web advertiser on her blog:

By using a popup blocker, you are essentially stealing their work. You’re nothing more than a common thief.

Nice to know that particular advertiser cares so much for their users.

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One Response to “Evil popups are back”

  • #1 Andy Says:
    February 28th, 2005 at 7:10 pm

    Evil Andy is back spamming your site, have you noticed, you will never ban me as i have infinite isp addresses! Ah ha hah hah ha evil laugh

    Gosh i am sad!