Popups are extremely effective

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DevilsCharm

Posted 30 July 2006 - 11:07 AM

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I recently read somewhere, it was a sales pitch for this thing that helped you develop popups that beat the pop-up blockers... and it was so stupid. It's like "we all know pop-ups are the best advertisement methods, but with everybody having pop-up blockers, it's hard to deliver them." That's why people have pop-up blockers, BECAUSE THEY HATE THEM. I just needed to express myself about that.

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Posted 30 July 2006 - 11:54 AM

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Adblocker with FireFox takes it a step further. I hate downloading ads on dialup that I WILL NEVER follow. Personally, I think Google's Adsense is about the only acceptable ad system out there right now.

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#3
icepack

Posted 30 July 2006 - 01:29 PM

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they are extremely effective

extreme effective at pissing me off

oooh who didn't see that one coming

#4
Crane

Posted 01 August 2006 - 04:20 AM

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icepack said:

they are extremely effective

extreme effective at pissing me off
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lol, same here.

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Guest_Kaabi_*

Posted 01 August 2006 - 09:13 AM

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Good one, Icepack. There are some instances where popups are effective, like the ones that flash and say "You have one something!" I thought everybody in these days were wise to these ads, and know that they actually have not won anything. I must admit, when I was younger, I thought they were real, but about four to six months ago, my friend, a grown man, was on the computer and a pop-up like that came up. I can't imagine how he hadn't seen one before, but then he asked me if it was real. If I wasn't there, he would have clicked it, and I told him it wasn't real. HE WAS BEING SERIOUS!! There must be thousands of people like him out there, so all I can say is those ones do work.

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Posted 02 August 2006 - 11:25 AM

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Some of them look real. And the ones that have the sights (circle with a cross in it) that lets you move the mouse and tells you to "Shoot the ...." - they are tempting because I always want to shoot whatever is moving back and forth.

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DevilsCharm

Posted 02 August 2006 - 04:17 PM

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It's quite funny, the popups they have now are actually more advanced than the early video games, hilarious, isn't on? I mean come on there was this one Orbitz pop-up that was like that "Helicopter" game, where you click the mouse and it flies up, release and it drops. I played that game for like half an hour, and it was actually a pop-up! Amazing.

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Guest_sn17_*

Posted 09 August 2006 - 08:54 AM

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Ya, guys. All pop ups do is to annoy users. Infact I dont even see whats in a pop up.

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DevilsCharm

Posted 17 August 2006 - 10:33 AM

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Yeah, a lot of popups these days don't even seem to have content on them. It seems their purpose is literally becoming to annoy.

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Posted 20 August 2006 - 06:37 AM

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WingedPanther said:

Well the Ad-Blocker that I made with Visual Basic blocks those too! I just HATE all adverts! If I want to buy something I would go on eBay and buy it! but I wont buy anything from popups and adverts!

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Posted 26 August 2006 - 09:26 AM

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Tcm9669 said:

Well the Ad-Blocker that I made with Visual Basic blocks those too! I just HATE all adverts! If I want to buy something I would go on eBay and buy it! but I wont buy anything from popups and adverts!

I think people should start paying more attention to advertisements, in order to stimulate online advertising and the economy. And... and make me more money.