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Pop-up ads influence Web rankings
News Pop-up ads continue to gain momentum and drive up traffic numbers for little-known Web sites, according to a study released on Monday. The research company said the majority of visitors came to the site from pop-up ads, which pump up unique user...
[October 16, 2001, 10:00]
Pop-under ads may pop up in wallets
News He said he saw several complaints from ISP customers about pop-up advertising, or ads that launch over a Web page. for example, started running pop-under ads last year amid concerns about its weakening online advertising revenue.
[June 5, 2002, 10:58]
New Lindows shuts out spam and pop-up ads
News Robertson also touted new additions to the operating system, including SpamSafe, a "smart" spam filter that screens out unwanted email, and AdSafe, which blocks pop-up advertising pages on Web sites. Software maker Lindows released a new version of...
[June 26, 2003, 15:43]
Ads to pop up on eBay
News EBay plans to test out pop-up ads on its Web site, a move that could prove controversial with its members. Once largely confined to pornography Web sites, pop-up ads have become increasingly prevalent in recent years on mainstream Web sites such as...
[May 13, 2002, 10:38]
Firefox improves pop-up ad blocking
Talkback Here is my MO dealing with ads on web sites a) If it's an ad for a *local* business (say on the local BBS) I click on it, reguardless. No circumstances, do I support annoying ads. Advertise with local businesses, and/or have e) style ads, and we'll...
[April 4, 2005, 21:07]
Anti-spyware software targets Gator
News They harvest your personal information, use it to pop up ads, or upload your information to the Internet and create spam mailing lists. More than 1 million people use AdSubtract to block pop-up ads, banners and Flash animated ads.
[September 10, 2003, 10:10]
Google takes a stand against pop-ups
News The Web favourite made a stand on Tuesday to protect its consumer-friendly image by posting a notice decrying pop-up ads as "annoying" and unwelcome at its site. If consumers receive a pop-up, the notice explains, it's likely to be the fault of a...
[January 30, 2002, 11:59]
Consumers: Stop the pop-ups!
News The program, which only works with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, prevents pop-up windows and gives consumers the choice to view certain ads. She reviles the use of pop-up ads on mainstream Web sites such as AOL.com and Netscape because the...
[February 6, 2001, 15:13]
Pop-ups: Unpopular, but effective
News Pop-up ads seem to be the Internet equivalent of supermarket tabloids: everyone claims to hate them, but somebody keeps reading. According to a study conducted by GartnerG2, 78 percent of respondents claimed they found pop-up ads "very annoying.
[January 15, 2003, 10:58]
The great banner ad cover-up
News The software company, known for hawking pop-up ads that let companies advertise on rival sites, is working a new variation on the theme -- selling ads designed to block banners on sites such as Yahoo!
[August 17, 2001, 12:43]
Gator bites back in ad battle
News A software company at the centre of a growing dispute over the use of pop-up ads has sued the Interactive Advertising Bureau to protect its right to sell ads that can cover those on other Web sites. Gator's service delivers pop-ups that can obscure...
[August 29, 2001, 9:50]
Pop-ups are here to stay
News Pop-up ads may seem like they're everywhere, but they account for only a small portion of online advertisements, according to a new study. During the first seven months of this year, pop-up and pop-under ads amounted to just 2 percent of all online...
[September 5, 2002, 11:16]
Pop Up Blocker
Downloads Pop Up Blocker automatically blocks spyware and adware pop-up ads. This means the more you use Pop Up Blocker, the fewer pop-up ads you see. Pop Up Blocker blocks advertisement in the forms of inline videos, background sounds, JAVA applets...
[February 22, 2007, 10:42]
Pop-Up Zapper Lite
Downloads Zaps away most pop-up ads fast without you ever having to see them. Speed up your browsing experience by not loading costly popup window ads. Pop-Up Zapper is a shareware application for Mac that helps you by 'zapping' away those annoying...
[August 6, 2003, 8:00]
Pop-ups bounce back
News In January, Paul Haigh downloaded Google's toolbar to dispel annoying pop-up ads. Pop-up blockers like Google's or Yahoo's don't prevent these ads from appearing because they use a different command. Visitors typically can't manipulate the ads like...
[June 7, 2004, 11:30]
Pop-ups pushed down at Ask Jeeves
News Ask Jeeves has banned pop-up advertisements from its search site, making it the latest Web operator to discontinue the ads, generally loathed by users. Ask Jeeves, which operates search sites Ask.com and Teoma.com, stopped pushing pop-up ads to its...
[October 21, 2002, 8:51]
Pop-ups add new twist
News Pop-up and pop-under ads open a new window when people visit many popular Web sites, often littering the computer desktop with multiple browser screens. Pop-up ads have been an especially unpleasant offshoot of the dot-com downfall for Web visitors...
[December 23, 2002, 7:40]
Firefox improves pop-up ad blocking
News The Mozilla Foundation has developed a beta patch for the Firefox browser that it claims improves the blocking of pop-up ads. Mozilla employee Asa Dotzler wrote in his blog last week that Mozilla developers are responding to the increasing number...
[April 4, 2005, 17:40]
Pop-Up No-No
Downloads Stop all types of pop-up ads with Pop-Up No-No. Pop-Up No-No blocks far more ads than other pop-up blocking software. It also blocks pop-unders, multimedia Flash ads, messenger service ads, background sounds, and even GIF animations.
[February 3, 2005, 2:33]
Act History & Pop-Up Killer & Web Content Filter
Downloads Act History & Pop-Up Killer & Web Content Filter clears your Windows and Internet history tracks, stops pop-up ads, blocks HTTP referrers, filters ad content, and suppresses script viruses. You also can erase the tracks of popular Windows...
[May 4, 2005, 0:16]
