Is there anything more irritating than pop-up adverts?

[whiskygalore]

Please make them stop - if we must have them on here, can they at least be confined to appearing only on the main topic pages, not every time I click on a link?

[anthomson]

If you are getting a lot of pop-up ads may be worth checking that you haven't accidently installed any stealth 'spy-ware' products like Gator that will automatically pop up adverts for its clients on any page it feels like. Use a product like Ad-aware to check and cleanse your system.

[xyzzy@bok]

no, this place is popup mad. you wanna get popupstopper freeware it works great. As for gator BLEEAARRGHH! WEB CRIMINALS. and doubleclick, fastclick adserver, bluestreak, hitbox, tribalfusion, valueclick to name a few sneaky underhand webgoblins.. If you don't want this intrusiveness Cookiewall freeware let's you deny certain cookies as soon as thet arrive. :-)

[Headtime]

They are truly the scourge of the internet. However I've noticed that Answerbank doesn't funtion properlly with my pop-up-stopper enabled. As the site uses legit pop-ups to sign on and post etc

[lisaj]

Try using a firewall or editing you hosts file to block or misdirect HTML queries to the advertising companies. I have blocks in place for "popuptraffic", "exitfuel", "valueclick", "infinite-ads", "doubleclick", "sextracker", "valueclick", "link4ads", "dialer", "adviva" and "arriba". End result? No access to URLs with those keywords in them can take place, and hence no ads. Not one pop-up that isn't legitimate so rest assured this method works!

[xyzzy@bok]

Well, Headtime, when using 'Panicware' popupstopper with AB, you just hold down your Ctrl button while you post or answer; this works fine - unless you have an inferior popupstopper clone. and CookieWall works good too.