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Re: Creator of the Internet pop-up ad apologizes for 'hated tool'

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> In article <c5a30kFie4aU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> wrote:

> > On 16/08/2014 22:18, RS Wood wrote:
> > > If he's really sorry, he'll allow us to administer a gentle
> > > electrical shock each time we have to click one ...
> > 
> > Such a shock administered by the billions of internet users cursing
> > the popup hence multiplied up by that factor would create some
> > spectacular lightning.
> > 
> > Since popup blockers, I now curse web sites/apps which validly use
> > popups and require explicit exclusions to be set up. Largely
> > because much of the time you cannot know that they will be needed
> > until someone complains that something isn't working.

> Actually, I'm willing to (mostly) forgive that guy at this point. 
> But I've got my semi-automatic electric zartmeister remote laser
> pistol aimed squarely at the gonads of whichever numbnuts invented
> the "black out the web page and place something in the middle of the
> screen saying 'subscribe to our newsletter' or 'log in for special
> deals' or whatever." That technology sucks and frequently doesn't
> work.

Most of those things are javascript and/or css triggered.  Noscript
(Firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ can
help with the former.  For the latter, turning off css (alt-v y n in
Firefox) often makes them disappear, and therefore makes the obscured
text readable.

> The Register - I think - is guilty of screwing it up, and on tablets
> the "close" button for that little bastard is off to the side of the
> screen because the code has misread the width of the tablet.  So you
> can't ever close that annoying thing, and therefore you can never get
> to the page you were reading.

Of course, noscript as well as the "turn off css" option would only
work on tablets when the tablet browser provides an ability to have
something like noscript and an option to turn off css.

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Creator of the Internet pop-up ad apologizes for 'hated tool' Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-16 15:10 +0000
  Re: Creator of the Internet pop-up ad apologizes for 'hated tool' RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-16 21:18 +0000
    Re: Creator of the Internet pop-up ad apologizes for 'hated tool' Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-16 22:00 +0000
    Re: Creator of the Internet pop-up ad apologizes for 'hated tool' polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-16 23:07 +0100
      Re: Creator of the Internet pop-up ad apologizes for 'hated tool' RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-17 12:47 +0000
        Re: Creator of the Internet pop-up ad apologizes for 'hated tool' Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-17 14:44 +0000

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