No more Popups

[brtspears2]

popups are back, and no, I don't have any debt if anyone cares.

 

[crystal]

I got pop-up. 🙁🙁 :|

 

[kinkyboy702]

popups are freakin' annoying. i want to pull out all my hair when i see one. 😱P

 

[apoppin]

Simply click Internet Options/Advanced and uncheck Use inline AutoComplete in Windows Explorer. Then "apply" . . . no more popups.

After the problem with the popoffs are over, you can turn it on again. (Or else you can look through some locked threads for "Adds-Off" and similar freeware pop-off killers.

Fix the problem - Why complain?

 

[JimmyEatWorld]

Popup = suck
I hope this is just someone's idea of a practical joke and not a permanent accessory to the forums....
I renounce these popups in the name of all that is good and sacred!!!!
Death to the popups!!
give me liberty or give me death!!!!!
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[alchemist]

make them stop mommy make the evil ads stop

 

[jpucci1]

http://servedby.advertising.com/mnum=0000016910/site=0000041243/logs=0/bins=1

 

[Squisher]

I gotta go find something to filter these out.

 

[Imported]

Yay.. I just got five in a row. 😀

Look at the pretty popups..

 

[xodarap]

Anand rides again!

I hope he realizes were going to have him sainted when he retires

 

[anandfan]

Whoa! This is exciting now. Like some cheap sci-fi flick: Anand versus the Multi-Headed Popup Monster. Go Anand...

Turning off the Angry Man icon. Turning on Team Anand icon!


apoppin: Thanks for the tip. Just tried it;will sell how it works here and elsewhere.

 

[titanone31]

still getting them

 

[LAUST]

GROWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!

 

[Jazar]

Is it safe yet? i haven't gotten any in the last minute or so. 🙂

 

[Eug]

Got some a few minutes ago.

 

[apoppin]

Well, anandfan, did it work for you?

I get no more popups after this simple trick. However, once this problem is resolved here, turn it back on as you may be missing something intrinsic in some webpages.

 

[shawnmos]

i have finally decided to use Nutscrape and they are gone. don't laugh! the only reason i even have it on my computer is to test my forums which currently don't work properly with nutscrape. 🙁

 

[fallenoncrack]

lol

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

i just disabled active scripting in my security preferences in i.e.
guaranteed to work as long as it's off but i turn it back on when going elsewhere

 

[dukdukgoos]

Pop-ups are definitely NOT gone. Please take care of this ASAP. Extremely rude and distracting.

 

[amsdmf]

DAmn if i wanted to keep getting these freakin things I'd go find some prOn

 

[alpha88]

IT is possible to specifically disable javascript in IE for just these forums by adding forums.anandtech.com to you black list and then setting different permissinos

 

[AlphaIVT]

no, they are NOT gone, sorry i made another thread. but they are not gone, annoying like hell, reminds me of my cheesy website, LOL

 

[THELAIR]

10:13pm mountain time. Still here.

hehe. I hope anand gets a chance to rip these guys apart, they are told no pop ups.

 

[xaigi]

AD-AVOIDANCE-HOWTO


I've seen at least 5 different posts on how annoying some of the new ads here on Anands are supposed to be.
Unfortunately, I cant give my opinion on how annoying these advertisements really are because I have yet to see
even one of them.

Here are a few tips on avoiding advertisements:

1) Turn off javascript -- This will stop all pop-up ads.
1b) Get mozilla -- I believe there is a bit of code out there that blocks certain javascript functions. This may be
linux-only, I dont know.

2) Get junkbuster. (www.junkbuster.com) -- Junkbuster is an ad-busting proxy. It is fully configurable and can
stop your system from GETing files from known ad sites like ad.doubleclick.com and known ad paths like /ads. It
works on windows and unix. I dont know about macs.