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Sites Aim To Get Around Ad Blockers

News As Web site operators employ software to block the blockers, ad filtering companies will most likely develop workaround solutions to the technology. Dusseldorf, Germany-based MediaBeam last month said it's testing a product that aims to detect ad...

[October 11, 2001, 9:05]

Sites Aim To Get Around Ad Blockers

Talkback Well what we do here at the school here i work is to use an ISA Server rule to filter out the IP's of the Ad servers :) it works a treat! We should have control over what we view and anyway if you swamp users with banner/popup ad's then they are...

[October 7, 2003, 15:41]

Pop-ups Bounce Back

News It initiates a JavaScript command, and it gets around pop-up blockers that don't block user initiated commands like Google and Yahoo," said Adam Tuttle, director of Adserver sales for Fastclick, another ad network.

[June 7, 2004, 11:30]

More BS From Microsoft

More BS from Microsoft image Member Review For those of us already running virus protection, firewalls and ad blockers, MS is way too late with a product that has too many conflicts with existing programs.

[September 14, 2004, 16:21]

Firefox Improves Pop-up Ad Blocking

Talkback It's ignored and turned off until a block stops it.d) If it's an animated GIF, Java, or shockwave (IE: if it moves) it's turned off using the blockers I have installed on Firefox. Here is my MO dealing with ads on web sites a) If it's an ad for a...

[April 4, 2005, 21:07]

Online Advertising Needs To Be New And Improved

Leader But the onus isn't on the browser makers to avoid ad blockers, which in any case are widely available already. It could well be that over time, the straightforward advertising-led business model will fail for reasons other than ad blocking.

[June 23, 2005, 13:25]

New IE May Burst Pop-up Bubble

News Browser-based ad blockers are not always effective in stopping pop-ups delivered through "adware" programs, which may come attached to free downloads for trading computer files over the Net, among other things.

[November 25, 2003, 14:35]

Windows XP Service Pack 2: A First Look

Talkback I have used a number of other popup blockers (e.g. Now when I run Spybot or Ad-aware I get virtually no bugs at all, and in fact I rarely even bother running them anymore. I have downloaded the Beta version of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the...

[July 22, 2004, 3:05]