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Pop Up Paranoia
Mon Dec 29 2003

What the heck is with all the pop up ads lately?

Not just on DD either. Everywhere I go, there are blinking, whirling, flashing, gyrating, sliding, rotating, hopping ads trying to get my attention.

Listen people, if I want to buy something from Spiegel's , I will get myself a catalog and do so. I am a big girl, I know how to do that. And who in their right mind would buy life insurance from an internet comany with a flashing pop up with a zombie rising from the grave?

I am advertised to death. I am immune. As a matter of fact I am about to become
surly and stubborn. This is not the best outcome for salespeople. I knew something had taken a drastic change for the worse when a few television stations started putting an ad on at the end so you could buy the CD that was used for the sound track of the show. Give me a flippin' break people!

I think I have "pitch burn". Overexposure to people trying to sell me stuff I don't want, I don't need and I don't even like. If they were door to door salesmen, you could get a nice big slobbering dog and tie it to your front porch to warn them away. But no such animal exists in the cyber realms that gets rid of ALL of the annoying ads.

So listen, Mr. Speigel company. Send me a free catalog, and I'll look at it, but get the heck off my computer screen.

8 Comments
  • From:
    DeLancie (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Dec 28 2003
    You shouldn't be seeing ads as a Premium User, but that relies on you not blocking cookies from www.deardiary.org so that it knows from one session to the next...

    Let me know if you're still having problems after checking that :)
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Dec 28 2003
    Couldn't have said it better!
  • From:
    DeLancie (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Dec 28 2003
    For Premium read Plus ;)
  • From:
    Salamander (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Dec 28 2003
    Heh, I still get the Spiegle pop-ups too (except for when I'm logged in AND working in my own diary - then the pop-ups stop).

    At least this admin is showing some responsibility in what pop-ups he's allowing. I've was hijacked three times, on three different hosts, by this absolutely obnoxious ad that takes over your homepage, tries to open and shut your CD drive, and then claims your computer can be taken over by hackers if you don't download their product.

    I spend *a lot* of time on the web, and I've been pretty much backed into downloading a pop-up blocker, because it's just not safe out there anymore.
  • From:
    RealmOfRachel (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Dec 28 2003
    I know exactly what you mean can I enlist in your anti pop up campaign? I'm sick of spyware too...you're absolutely right we need a big cyber rottweiler to keep the hawkers away.

    Rach xx
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Dec 29 2003
    It's great to know you loved the last part of the LOTR. We're seeing it some time this week. Hope your movie night was fun. I hate pop-ups, too. Apparently there is free software you can download to prevent it, but be sure to get something reputable. Have a great day. ;-)
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Dec 29 2003
    fair enough too
    ads are one of the things i don't miss about telly

    sez
  • From:
    AeolianSolo (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Dec 29 2003
    Now you sound like Truman!

    I've immunized myself to ads so well I find if I like a commercial because it's cute or funny I still don't remember what they're trying to sell. Except Geico (and that's only because of the gecko/Geico thing) and I still won't buy their car insurance because my premium will go straight into their advertising budget.

    I made up my mind a long time ago that I wouldn't shop at Macy's because any store that can afford a 4-full-page ad in the SF Chronicle *every weekday* does NOT need my money.

    Being unable to stem the tide of advertising (I'm with you: if I need something, I know how to go out and find it myself), I resign myself to attempting to steadfastly ignoring it. Like the man with the overcoat, the cold wind will never coax me to remove it by buffeting me relentlesly. I wish Madison Avenue would figure that out.

    --Solo