The return of annoying pop-ups...
Feb 21, 2009 2:59:32 GMT
Post by CharlieChomper on Feb 21, 2009 2:59:32 GMT
For those of you who rely upon pop-up/under blockers, if you've noticed they are still somehow showing up or are becoming pervasive it isn't because the feature isn't working properly or there is something "wrong" with it (nor does it necessarily mean you've been afflicted with some form of malware somewhere)--it's because those creating them are relying upon a different method to unleash them.
More specifically, because most people these days rely upon some form of ad or pop-up/under blocker out there, those who create them (mostly companies) have chosen to try a different tactic which gets past the blockers (as they were never designed to distinguish "good" DHTML coding for pop-ups that a site might have a valid reason for using versus in this instance, of where DHTML is being used to create those ever-annoying pop-up (usually ads) that the blockers were often designed to keep at bay or block out altogether).
While the technique isn't new (the first link was published back in 2005 to give you a fair idea of how "old" this method is), it seems to only recently be catching on and becoming much more popular due to the widespread prevalence and use of the blockers.
There is a way of attempting to block them out in most browsers--in IE, it requires setting things to the highest settings (which, unfortunately, can also render useless a number of legitimate sites out there as well or block out access to them) whereas in the Mozilla "family" of browsers (Sea Monkey and Firefox), there does exist an add-on which should block them out and which I have used in the past (and ended up removing shortly thereafter due to the annoyance factor it caused...).
More specifically, because most people these days rely upon some form of ad or pop-up/under blocker out there, those who create them (mostly companies) have chosen to try a different tactic which gets past the blockers (as they were never designed to distinguish "good" DHTML coding for pop-ups that a site might have a valid reason for using versus in this instance, of where DHTML is being used to create those ever-annoying pop-up (usually ads) that the blockers were often designed to keep at bay or block out altogether).
While the technique isn't new (the first link was published back in 2005 to give you a fair idea of how "old" this method is), it seems to only recently be catching on and becoming much more popular due to the widespread prevalence and use of the blockers.
There is a way of attempting to block them out in most browsers--in IE, it requires setting things to the highest settings (which, unfortunately, can also render useless a number of legitimate sites out there as well or block out access to them) whereas in the Mozilla "family" of browsers (Sea Monkey and Firefox), there does exist an add-on which should block them out and which I have used in the past (and ended up removing shortly thereafter due to the annoyance factor it caused...).
I will however, be taking more notice now in future!