-- POPUPS -- please read - Page 4

-Jrabbit · November 12, 2003, 13:29

I've been gone since last Friday. when I returned last night, I got a bunch of pop-unders, but none with gator or other installer prompts. This is acceptable.

About 7:30 this morning, I got the same group of 3 waiting "under" after I posted. Two for match.com, one for ancestry.com. Just got them again (with a 4th = another version of ancestry).

Default-extra special, IE 6.0.

I have no (well, less) objection to pop-unders. Less intrusive, advertisers know I'll view them, and shutting them only takes a sec.

MarkG · November 12, 2003, 16:50

DaveV do you allow cookies?

DaveV · November 12, 2003, 17:23

MarkG - yes, cookies enabled. I am auto-logged in when I access the site, so cookies are at least partially working.

Verto · November 12, 2003, 19:03

I got an ad for PrimaPoker.com , url is http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/...80.43612/3216/

Off-Topic Forum, no other windows opened.

MarkG · November 13, 2003, 01:04

it will be removed from rotation in the next few hours. but we're puting in some pops with bush and the health care issue

DaveV · November 13, 2003, 17:48

Even more pop-unders today.

MarkG · November 13, 2003, 18:02

how many pages did you visit to get them?

-Jrabbit · November 13, 2003, 18:24

Hmm. Lots of MarkG sightings this week. Off duty?

FWIW, personally, I'd much rather see a poker site than an "issue click"...

Overall, I gotta say this is a big improvement. Pop-unders don't interrupt me. I seem to get them in pairs, usually when I do a search or post. Had one pop-up on top today, but had multiple browsers open, so maybe it just seemed that way.

Anyway -- Kudos, Grand Lord of Apolyton, on finding a reasonably non-invasive ad service.

DrSpike · November 13, 2003, 18:26

Mark: Probably very few. I've had a lot today, much more even than before you stopped the lot.

mrmitchell · November 13, 2003, 18:30

titles of poopups:
-Gambling Search Result
the one we know and love
-CheapTickets
odd, nothing loaded. javascript

pener.pophtml is all the URL says
-Tickle by Emode: IQ and...
http://www.emode.com/tests/uiq/ is the URL
-Democracy Data
javascript

pener.pophtml
-Instant Message
javascript

pener.pophtml
-Mozilla (no title)
javascript

pener.pophtml
-Democracy Data
javascript

pener.pophtml

Eh?

Vlad Antlerkov · November 13, 2003, 20:03

Quote:

Originally posted by mrmitchell
titles of poopups:

Freudian slip?

Getting a barrage of popups on opening the forums (3-4, no installation prompts). No popups after loading up forums. Default-UltraSpecial-Moo3. Cookies enabled.

Anyway, a big THANK YOU to Mark for telling those walking, festering colostomy bags at Gator where to stuff it.

OzzyKP · November 13, 2003, 22:25

Has anyone else had pop-ups cause problems for their browser? Specificially the people using AOL.

AOL keeps freezing and crashing because of the pop-ups on Apolyton. This problem just started like 2-3 days ago, it was fine before that.

MarkG · November 14, 2003, 01:08

Quote:

Getting a barrage of popups on opening the forums (3-4, no installation prompts)

you got 3-4 popups on a single page?

Alexander's Horse · November 14, 2003, 01:10

Its probably anonimyser

DrSpike · November 14, 2003, 08:31

I also got a slightly strange one in a small blue window, prompting me to install some privacy protection software. Anyone else seen this?

DaveV · November 14, 2003, 10:39

Quote:

Originally posted by MarkG
how many pages did you visit to get them?

Five, I think. One popunder on my first page on the site, the main forums page (not my first access of the day, btw). Two more on the next page, then two more on the next one, then one or two pages with no popunders, then the final two.

When I posted this message, I again got one popunder on the main page (second visit to the site today), two when I came to this forum, and one when I clicked to this message.

Japher · November 14, 2003, 17:20

I get the govalue.homestead, tickle (whatever that is

), and the cheaptickets pop up everytime I move in these forums. It's actually starting to get annoying.

MarkG · November 14, 2003, 17:53

Cookie-using time-based code has been added on forums pages to control the frequency that you get popups and popunders.

The various styles settings also have... meaning again as the time between popups is different between the normal, special and ultra special popups(the last couple of months due to the continues changes in our popup code all styles showed the same amount of ads), with the normal styles having bigger time periods between pops

Please note that this a temporary system, we plan to put in a page-based one, e.g. a pop will be shown based on the number of pages that you visit (exact numbers have not been decided)

DrSpike · November 14, 2003, 18:14

Sounds good.

I'm sure we'll let you know how it goes.

Japher · November 14, 2003, 18:29

I haven't been getting them as often, thanks

Good Standing:
20 pages = 1 pop-up

Mediocer Standing:
10 pages = 1 pop-up

Your this close to being banned:
5 pages = 1 pop-up

One more word out of you and I am banning you:
1 page = 1 pop-up

If I hear a peep out of you, permaban!!!!:
1 page = 10 pop-ups

You have been banned:
1 page = 5 pop-ups

You have been permabanned:
1 page = 1x 10^4 pop-ups

alva · November 15, 2003, 03:00

Mark, one of these you are looking for?

MarkG · November 15, 2003, 03:45

Quote:

Mark, one of these you are looking for?

for the purpose of?

alva · November 15, 2003, 05:12

Eugh, one the ones you didn't want ( to see).

( I got it this morning, that's why I posted it. )

MarkG · November 15, 2003, 05:50

hmmm they look ok to me

DrSpike · November 15, 2003, 07:53

That's the one I was talking about, in the blue box. It looks suspicious.

Rasbelin · November 15, 2003, 08:19

Any other form of advertising would be better than pop-ups. I hope Markos and Dan will decide to get rid of all pop-up advertising, because it's a very annoying form of ads. All the time spent by Markos on the ads could be used to work on a membership system, or to invent other forms of income. Neutral ads are Google AdSense, ACS Store and other nice banner ads that don't fill your screen with junk, like pop-ups do.

DanQ · November 15, 2003, 21:02

Quote:

Originally posted by Rasbelin
All the time spent by Markos on the ads could be used to work on a membership system...

We can multi-task, you know...

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Dan; Apolyton CS

DrSpike · November 15, 2003, 21:31

DanQ sighting!

Now that you're here please tell us which you think is more senior in general (with of course no reference to 'Poly) out of, say, a grand lord, and........oh I don't know....... maybe an emperor?

Panag · November 16, 2003, 01:13

Quote:

Originally posted by Rasbelin
Any other form of advertising would be better than pop-ups. I hope Markos and Dan will decide to get rid of all pop-up advertising, because it's a very annoying form of ads. All the time spent by Markos on the ads could be used to work on a membership system, or to invent other forms of income. Neutral ads are Google AdSense, ACS Store and other nice banner ads that don't fill your screen with junk, like pop-ups do.

hi ,

, so when are you going to work on the apolyton TEAM , .......

have a nice day

Asmodean · November 16, 2003, 08:10

Quote:

Originally posted by Rasbelin
Any other form of advertising would be better than pop-ups.

Yeah....I'm kinda hoping that they opt for a system, where everytime I load a new page, my TV set automatically changes to the TV-shop channel

Asmodean