BS: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!

Subject: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 01:10 PM

Well, it had to happen eventually I guess. Watch out over at Cowpie. It's all crapped up.

One had a corner you could click to close it but as soon as I started mousing over to it, it began to scoot across the page evading capture, then shrunk before my eyes and vanished on its own. Who designs these awful things anyway?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 01:11 PM

(not giving Cowpie URL or clickie so you don't just auto-click over there!)

~S~

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 01:17 PM

No it didn't have to happen eventually. Admit that and it'd mean it'd have to happen here.

But why do people pay to have these things inserted? - they are almost certainly counter-productive.

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 01:33 PM

Had to close the window on one of them at Cowpie. It wouldn't "X" out. Someone suggested clicking twice rapidly on the "X" but all that got me was "illegal operation" when I tried it (I admit, after the double-click didn't work I hit it several times).
I won't go to a "geocities" website for the same reason. I agree with McGrath. I won't use Amazon for books or cds because I got splattered with spam. I have a new email, and until they find me again, it is Elysium.

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: Ed.
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 02:00 PM

Using a simple pop-up killer such as the free popup stopper will solve the problem.

GUEST, simply set up a different yahoo/hotmail or whatever account for your amazon transactions, and only share your main email address with friends/colleagues etc.

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 02:04 PM

Each popup stopper I have used has seemed to cause me trouble with other programs. Maybe some of you computer geniuses don't have that problem, but as far as I am concerned, popups are worse than telemarketers.

~S~

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: Giac
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 02:08 PM

Maybe they thought it was time to pay the pie-per.

BTW, Popup Stopper works pretty well for me, too.

Mary

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 02:20 PM

Ed, I won't use Amazon period. If I disaprove of a company's methods, I don't use them.
I was told to be careful of programs like popup stopper by the person instructing me in computer use (Poor woman, she is dealing with a confirmed Luddite). She also warned of interference in places where you least expect it.

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 02:50 PM

I haven't had a problem with Amazon. They probably had an opt-out page that I used early on. Earthlink has a pop up program they're pushing now, but I haven't tried it. I work with a lot of java script at the library where I am employed and I think it might render access to the proxy server useless. Anyone finding this to be the case?

SRS

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: GUEST,Sorcha
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 04:28 PM

The panicware popup killer linked above seems to be working fine for me and not interfering with other stuff (knock wood). The only problem I have is that every time I reboot I have to put it back in the system tray. I went to Cowpie and didn't get any pop ups.

Subject: RE: Oh No! Cowpie's full of pop-up ads now!
From: GUEST,Bill D
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 08:42 PM

Using Opera browser or Mozilla browser can keep you almost totally pop-up free without special programs....but if you want the ultimate 'stopper' program, try The Proxomitron

...it requires a little configuration because it does so much, but it will sure make life easier...