boycott espn.com

[Mosey]

A couple of times espn.com has used has very annoying ad technique. The constant pop up ads that have become popular with web sites is bad enough, but tolerable since all I have to do is close the window. But this new thing they're doing is going way too far on the "annoyance" scale. If users of the internet don't put a stop to it now, they'll be everywhere, just like the pop up ads. Here's what I'm talking about. You go to a page and start reading an article and all of a sudden the page gets "taken over" and covered with the ad as if someone covered part a piece of paper you are reading with another piece of paper. As far as I can tell, there's no way to get rid of it, so you have to wait for it to time out. I'm sure espn.com is not the only one doing it, but I'll get my sports news from somewhere else until they stop!

 

[BHarrison]

I use a little program called PUK. Pop Up Killer. It works very well. I don't have the website at this time, but I can send you the app if you like.
Also, the new version of Opera catches pop-ups before they load. (PUK kills them as they're loading) With Opera, you don't even know they're there.

 

[Mosey]

Thanks. I found out about a "pop up stopper" (www.panicware.com/product_dpps.html) and it seems to work so far. I've been to weather.com a few times since I installed it and haven't had a pop up yet, and I used to get lots of them there.

 

[Gomez]

Lately, I noticed some sites change your homepage. Does the pop-up killer work on that too?

 

[BHarrison]

It will kill the pop-up that asks if you want it changed. I've never seen a web site change your home page without asking. ...maybe some of those no-good **** sites.