A question for you all

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-05-06 08:33pm

Has anyone EVER bought something from an internet popup or banner. I mean, some assholes are keeping them alive. Fess up.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-05-06 08:34pm

HELL NO

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-05-06 08:39pm

If i want to buy something i get off my butt and go to the store.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-06 08:51pm

Oh sure, insult our intellect why dontcha.

What next? Asking if we pay for porn?!

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-05-06 08:54pm

-has too short of an attention span for banners-

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-05-06 09:10pm

Nope...but they do annoy me greatly(I dunno...I know a couple friends dumb as shit enough for that)

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-05-06 09:54pm

Pop up ads are like N'Sync, everybodys doing it, but nobodys admiting to it. There should be pop up ads for pop up blockers. I know my mom goes to pop up ads all the time. She hella likes em, she says they're so convinent and helpful -_-. I come back to the computer and theres like 90 spyware programs on my computer, bah.

Has anybody seen that pop up ad that comes up and its like " BREAKING NEW SOFTWEAR DOWNLOAD NOW! ( or something along those lines ) ... and you close it or click no... then a few seconds later, another window flies open that says " WHOOPS! YOU FORGOT TO CLICK YES! " and has a picture of the thing you thought you just got rid of ? .... i hate that thing on so many levels -_-

Nova Andromeda · Post by **Nova Andromeda** » 2003-05-06 10:10pm

--The fact of the matter is popups and banners work for two reasons:
1. You only need 1 in thousands to respond for it to be entirely worthwhile.
2. Getting your name out so that later people remember your company exists when they are looking for your product is extremely valuable.

-Personally, I counter this by actively hating anything I see on popups and actively avoiding the advertised good or service.

-There are good popups though. Bearshare seems to have one that comes with the free bearshare. It tells you what it is doing, doesn't install spyware, and if I want I can kill it. However, I don't kill it because I wish to support good advertisement that supports free stuff for me.

irishmick79 · Post by **irishmick79** » 2003-05-06 10:17pm

Does anybody get the little stop sign that screams, "STOP POP UPs LIKE THIS ONE!" and then gives you the option to go to a website that sells crappy pop up blockers, and gives you an option saying, "I like this pop up". There's no way you can close the damned thing without going into your task list and terminating the fucker manually.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-05-06 10:21pm

I've been getting a LOT of Spam email about Spam blockers. Isn't that just ironic?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-05-06 10:26pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:I've been getting a LOT of Spam email about Spam blockers. Isn't that just ironic?

As if you'll trust spam blockers from spammers? Just like pop-up ads for pop-up blockers.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-05-06 11:15pm

Nope, I click the X as soon as they come up.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-05-06 11:22pm

NEVER.

I remember seeing a popup ad once... And guess what it was selling? Popup ad blockers.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-06 11:31pm

Cal Wright bought Photoshop 7 from a spam mail IIRC.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-05-06 11:33pm

[young child]What's a pop-up?[/young child] Seriously though, I have not.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-07 12:18am

I have Mozilla with Popup Blocking.

Only popups I ever see is the little one at this site that tells me I have a PM.. Bout the only popup I ever came across in my five years on the Net and liked.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-05-07 12:24am

Iceberg wrote:HELL NO

Ahem; hell FUCK no...

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-05-07 12:26am

Absolutely not.

Lord Sander · Post by **Lord Sander** » 2003-05-07 12:32am

Using adsubtract pro, so I never see a pop-up.

David · Post by **David** » 2003-05-07 01:07am

It's a conspiracy by the popup brocker software companies, so you have to buy their product. It's just like Easter and Christmas, manufactured by coporate America.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-05-07 04:53am

EWWWW, NO!

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-05-07 05:38am

I'm having a hard time envisioning something that could get me to overcome my bias against popups to even think about giving them my business.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-05-07 06:04am

Hey, if the internet wants me to spy on beautiful women, who am I to object? You can never have enough spycams. Or mortgages. Or Nigerian real estate money or whatever.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2003-05-07 06:35am

Pop Up Stopper keeps me safe from the evils of pop up banners!

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-05-07 07:33am

No

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