That bloody annoying Tribal Fusion pop up on this site

[ANZAC_ELITE]

Can we kick it into touch??? I'm just sick of the damn thing.

[The Tool]

You should not get more than 1 popup / 12 hours.

Need to pay for the server (where this website is hosted)!

Or maybe use a popup blocker.

[ANZAC_ELITE]

lol yer I understand that you need to pay mate. I was just havin a bitch

Cheers

[theBIGone]

Originally Posted by ANZAC_ELITE

lol yer I understand that you need to pay mate. I was just havin a bitch

Cheers

i get the tribal thing more than every 12 hours

[Disk_Contented]

Never seen it yet.

[Jazz]

I never get pop ups from this site and I use IE. You could try bypassing the main page and using Software & Hardware Discussion Forum as your 'bookmark'. That's what I do. Just a thought.

[F A B Scott]

Originally Posted by Jazz

I never get pop ups from this site and I use IE. You could try bypassing the main page and using Software & Hardware Discussion Forum as your 'bookmark'. That's what I do. Just a thought.

I do the bookmark thing too but still get it, and also get "media.fastclick.net" [critical error doodah]
And I use Firefox and pop up blockers etc etc. They come up underneath the main window so they don't bother me...I just see them when I leave the site.

[Jazz]

Originally Posted by F A B Scott

I do the bookmark thing too but still get it, and also get "media.fastclick.net" [critical error doodah]
And I use Firefox and pop up blockers etc etc. They come up underneath the main window so they don't bother me...I just see them when I leave the site.

I also use MVPS Hosts file along with IE-SPYAD2 and Google's toolbar. Only their Popup Blocker, mind you. The combination works fine for me.

[Cache]

Originally Posted by F A B Scott

I do the bookmark thing too but still get it, and also get "media.fastclick.net" [critical error doodah]
And I use Firefox and pop up blockers etc etc. They come up underneath the main window so they don't bother me...I just see them when I leave the site.

Is it the Adblock plugin your using with Firefox? 'cos thats what I'm using and it works fine once you train it, so to speak. One thing to note when using Adblock is to cut the URL right back to end of .com/ other wise you are only blocking one of many ads form that server.

[F A B Scott]

Originally Posted by Cache

Is it the Adblock plugin your using with Firefox? 'cos thats what I'm using and it works fine once you train it, so to speak. One thing to note when using Adblock is to cut the URL right back to end of .com/

It wasn't.....but it is now thanks, and thanks for pointing out that detail too.

[xequence]

I got the ad on the first two pages I visited on this site not including the register page. Then it stopped.

Its not really annoying if its not all the time. Once every 12 hours is good.

I dont understand why anyone clicks on popups anyway. I have only ever clicked on nice old google text ads.

[Jazz]

Originally Posted by xequence

I dont understand why anyone clicks on popups anyway. I have only ever clicked on nice old google text ads.

Ever heard of 'click culture mentality', xequence........................

[xequence]

Originally Posted by Jazz

Ever heard of 'click culture mentality', xequence........................

Nope :P

I just came on the site and two popups come up. One from a.tribalfusion.com and another from media.fastclick.net.

Got past firefoxes popup blocker, odd.

[gabbo]

Heh - this site shares one of the things that's finally pushed me into writing a proxy program to deal with silly adverts. This place has those dreadful green underline words that pop up an advert if you take your mouse anywhere near it. Horrifically annoying.

Anyhow, the solution I'm creating is a new one, rather than just blocking and hiding the ads, it invisibly downloads whatever's referenced (plenty of bandwidth on an 8Mb line) and dumps it. It then also (again invisibly) downloads a random selection of the links from the junk that's just been fetched, so it looks like a victim is 'browsing' the spam site. Sort of like a websnake that feeds the rubbish bin. Maintain the referer variable and fake a browser req header and there's no way an advertiser can tell it's gone nowhere

However, the advertiser has to *pay* for the bandwidth, so *eventually*, if I can persuade enough people to use my utility, the junk merchants will be paying for bucket loads of bandwidth to route all of their rubbish to dev/nul.

Sooner or later they'll give up hassling us and we'll be back to the internet that's divided between useful product pages which give information from manufacturers, about things people want to look up, and amateur pages, created by people for the love of doing so.
So, 50/50 useful and pleasurable. No more get rich spam pages...

It's coming along nicely and this will be one of the places I test it as it's got those *HORRIBLE* underlined green things..

Cheers

Gareth

[Disk_Contented]

Try the "proxomitron". A web filtering proxy. With Sidki's config, it's unbeatable. That's the sort of thing that I consider a necessity these days.