any webmasters, including moved onto other methods. (Such
myself have a dislike for as installing spyware on user's
popups, popunders, exit computers as they enter a
consoles, and the like. In the website, but we will leave that
early days of the Internet they subject for a future article.)
were the tactics used by
unscrupulous and unethical There are of course still
webmasters, some of which created webmasters out there who misuse
popup/under after popup/under in every tool that comes along. They
an endless stream that at times will not put the same effort into
ended up crashing a user's making money legitimately on the
browser. web as they will to create ways
to trick people into clicking
This gave all popups and something. These people will
popunders a bad reputation. So always find a way to cheat with
bad in fact, that a whole any new or old technology that
industry cropped up to create comes along.
software that blocks both popups
and popunders. Microsoft has even However, there are many
installed a popup blocker right legitimate companies and honest
into its latest version of webmasters that use the same
Internet Explorer. technology to serve their
customers in a good way.
A ton of articles have been
written about the evil of using I still have to be convinced that
popups and popunders and enough popups will ever be a good idea.
people have downloaded and I don't like popups of any
installed some form of popup variety. The normal popups that
blocker that most of the jump up in front of the page I am
unscrupulous webmasters have trying to view irritate me. The
ones that slide in from the side the ones with no "x" to click to
or the top or the bottom of the shut it down. The gurus that
page annoy me as do the created these codes probably
webmasters that claim those think they are really really
aren't really popups. They don't smart and creative. Some people
deserve a new name. have way too much time on their
hands and need to get a life.
The newest version I really hate What do they think? "Wow, I don't
is the glossy ad that covers half see a way to close this window.
the page over the website I want How creative! Now I must buy what
to see and you are forced to they are selling!" Right.
click or view the ad for the time
they have allotted to it before What I have seen though is
you are allowed to see the legitimate companies and
website. I know, when you watch webmasters that are using
TV you cannot just click off the popunders to drive traffic in a
commercials and these are not good way. They only use one
different, but this isn't TV. On popunder per visitor. They don't
TV I have a limited number of create an endless stream of them.
channels top switch to. Even if They don't place them offcenter
you have satellite TV you are or create them so they cannot be
still much more limited compared closed.
to the number of websites I can
go to instead of waiting for your These popunders do not cover the
ad to finish loading. page I am trying to view. I can
close them if I do not want to
Another "creative" type of popup visit the page being advertised.
is the "offcenter" popup. The one They are asking users to click
where you have to drag the window something related to where the
over before you can close it. Or visitor just came from, so they
might actually be interested in there to buy something I am just
the website advertised in the using their bandwidth.
popunder.
I applaud the companies that have
As a user, I am not bothered by taken the advertising by popunder
these and sometimes I click to a legitimate level and will
through to the website being pay attention to these ads in the
advertised if I have an interest future. I have changed my mind
in it. Why webmasters would want about at least the use of
to fool me into going to a popunders.
website I have no interest in is
beyond me. If I am not coming
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