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How do I KILL 'Overlay' Pop-up ads?
Name: Courtney Date: September 30, 2003 at 06:21:29 Pacific OS: XP PRo SP1a CPU/Ram: P4 3.2Ghz 1GB Ram
Comment:
I have Google Toolbar 2.0 for the regular pop-ups, and this works superbly, but it doesn't catch the even more annoying Overlay/Under popups, or whatever they are called? These ads cover the part of the web page I'm trying to read, so that I can't see anything but the add. And of course to close out of the ads, the option to do so is in very small, hard to make out.
I believe all of these ads are Flash based, as they are animated. There has got to be a applet or something else I can download to kill these extremely annoying ads.
Name: peter Date: September 30, 2003 at 07:04:12 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Courtney, I use pop-up stopper (free version) and I'm not getting those ads like you say...overlays. Maybe it has a different stopper mode than google? Unless you were talking those messenger ads that pop up on XP....they're real easy to disable.
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Response Number 2
Name: net1994 Date: September 30, 2003 at 07:20:05 Pacific
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No, I tunred off the Messenger Service A LONG time ago. Just seems that the Google Toolbar can't stop these overlay ads.
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Response Number 3
Name: net1994 Date: September 30, 2003 at 08:02:20 Pacific
Reply:
No, I tunred off the Messenger Service A LONG time ago. Just seems that the Google Toolbar can't stop these overlay ads.
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Response Number 4
Name: vince Date: September 30, 2003 at 08:03:51 Pacific
Reply:
If you refresh the page the pop-under will go away.
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Response Number 5
Name: keef444 Date: September 30, 2003 at 08:32:20 Pacific
Reply:
Courtney - Can u give us a url to test ??
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Response Number 6
Name: net1994 Date: September 30, 2003 at 15:00:48 Pacific
Reply:
Okay, try this major offender site.
Tv Guide:
http://tvguide.com/tv/roush/askmatt/
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Response Number 7
Name: Lesley Date: September 30, 2003 at 15:24:05 Pacific
Reply:
I just tried that TV Guide Link..
..no Pop-ups of any sort...
I'm using the Google Toolbar - it indicated that a Pop-up had been blocked
Lesley
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Response Number 8
Name: JohnO Date: September 30, 2003 at 15:33:48 Pacific
Reply:
PopUpCop blocked it.
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Response Number 9
Name: peter Date: October 1, 2003 at 22:40:08 Pacific
Reply:
pop-up stopper free edition killed the pop-up in that url....I think you should scrap the google bar and just use popup stopper....also gives you more screen.
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Response Number 10
Name: Lesley Date: October 2, 2003 at 03:49:15 Pacific
Reply:
The Google ToolBar is useful and it stopped the Pop-up for me
Must be another reason why Courtney gets the Pop-ups
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