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Anyone try one of these to stop popup and pop-under ads?

I've used PopUp Killer. It works fine, but the only reason I got rid of it is because I could never open a new browser window. I tend to open links in new windows and the popup killer did not allow me to do that.
 
You people should be ashamed of yourselves.

Anandtech is ad-based, yet you ask us here how to get rid of ads and therefore reduce the amount of money Anand gets for doing all his wonderful work.

I don't think it's right to ask that kind of question here.. Search the Web for a tool like that, if you want.

P.S. I think you should edit out your post.
 
ok you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

anand has told the ad agency he uses that he -does not- want pop up ads. they just dont listen well sometimes.

the ads he makes money off of are the banners at the top and bottom, they are not pop up ads.

chill the f- out.



<< P.S. I think you should edit out your post. >>


you should consider doing the same.
 
Yo VBboy, Anand does not use popups so this issue is N/A for this board.

You really should sober up before attempting to post.
 
I've been using PopUpKiller for a while and have not encountered any problems with it. You can configure it(add/remove sites from its blacklist) and also adjust the sensitivity of its smart detection to suit your surfing style. It also does not nag you for online registration(like some freeware prog.'s do).

hth,
eplebnista
 
Pop-ups / pop-unders should be illegal. I don't mind seeing advertising on someone's web site, but don't open browser windows on my PC.
 
Mozilla and browsers based on it (Galeon comes to mind) have built-in popup killers. In fact, it goes a step further and lets you
configure what information a website is allowed to query from your browser (such as screen resolution, color depth, etc). You can
also prevent certain sites (or all of them) from repositioning or resizing browser windows.

I'll only discuss how to disable popups here. The other features are similar. Edit the user.js file.

Let's say you want to disallow popups in general but you have a few "trusted" sites that you need to allow popups for. In this case,
you'd add something like this:

user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "noAccess");

This completely turns off popups. You'll see an error logged to the Javascript console whenever a site tries to open a window.
Now...to allow your trusted sites to open popups, add something like the following:

user_pref("capability.policy.allowpopups.sites", "http://www.anandtech.com http://www.foobar.com http://www.blahblah.blah");
user_pref("capability.policy.allowpopups.Window.open", "sameOrigin");

This creates a new policy named "allowpopups" that overrides the default setting for those sites listed.

The annoying thing is that I know of no way to force Mozilla to reload the user.js file once you modify it. So after making changes,
you'll need to restart your browser :-/

BUT WAIT...there's more! 🙂

Recently, the Mozilla team recognized that this is a tedious way to disable the annoying popups while allowing the useful popups
to continue (lots of sites will use popups to display information about products, etc). It turns out most of the "annoying" popups
are created when the webpage loads or when you leave the page. You know the types of popups I'm talking about. The Mozilla
team added an option that specifically disables these types of popups that occur while a page is loading while allowing other
(legitimate) popups:

user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", "true");

Try this instead of the above capability policy stuff. Works pretty slick IMO.


 
I can't figure an algorithm that will get rid of popup ads while not closing new windows which you open at the same time. I would just deal with the popups, they're not that annoying. People get too worked up over having to make an extra click here and there. People are just trying to make some money.
 
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