What is up with all the pop up ads?

[Dr Unne]

*mentions, once again, the tiny, legally free, easy-to-install Phoenix, and goes on to enjoy hours and hours of popup-free ad-banner-free non-Microshysters browsing entertainment*

[Garland]

The simple pop-up ad wasn't enough. Spewed forth from a banner ad that makes enough noise to disintegrate an earplug, they soon they began to multiply. And the spawn of the pop-up multiplied. Of these hell-spawned miscreants of the internet, some wore impenetrable armor. The achilles heal which was the X had been removed from these superior foes. Only with the power of Alt F4, and the all powerful Pop-up-stopper, can this onslaught be repelled. But at what cost? Most agree that the mighty Pop-up-stopper is as deadly to friend (IM's) as to foe (ads). And the power of Alt F4 must be used judiciously as well, for the rapid indiscriminant offense with said weapon risks destroying that which you fought to protect (closes the good window when jammed repeatedly in frustration). Is there no end in sight to this unending battle between good (us) and evil (the unscrupulous internet advertisers that enjoy afflicting web surfers with their pestillence)? I know not.

[Angered Roach]

I'm opening myself to ridicule here,
But is there a pop-up stopper that works for AOL?
Beacause my sanity is dear,
And these pop-ups, they create hell.

Pop up stoppers don't seem to have any effect on the AOL browser. And by the way. That Software plugin ad is beyond evil. By the way, I downloaded it in the hopes that it would get rid of the thing, and no such luck. But...I noticed something. One of the things it gives you is an adult entertainment thing. Maybe this ad could be reported to the higher-ups?

[Shlup]

*hears Unne, and has a pop up stopper at home, but is away from home, as she often is, where pop ups are not so easily stopped*

[Lionx]

Yea i remember making a thread and someone directed it to a site where i downloaded a popup stopper. Sure it works on IE, but on my AOL one it doesnt. So pop ups to to the bottom right corner where u have to scroll all the way down and right to close. Then go back up where ur windows are messed up. Pop ups are one reason i dont post as much as i used too, and since Pop up stopper doesnt work for AOL and kills my non built in AIM, i dont usually use it at all. POP UPS ARE EVIL!!

[edczxcvbnm]

Thanks all for your help on pop-up blocking things. But I would like to point out that it didn't answer my question.

Why are there pop-ups now? This place has always been so against them.

[Shlup]

As EoFF gets more traffic, the server has to find a way to compensate. Instead of charging money for more bandwith the server puts up more ads. No one in the staff has anything to do with the ads, it's the server that puts them up.

That's how I understand it, at least.

[Angered Roach]

Originally posted by lionx
Yea i remember making a thread and someone directed it to a site where i downloaded a popup stopper. Sure it works on IE, but on my AOL one it doesnt. So pop ups to to the bottom right corner where u have to scroll all the way down and right to close. Then go back up where ur windows are messed up. Pop ups are one reason i dont post as much as i used too, and since Pop up stopper doesnt work for AOL and kills my non built in AIM, i dont usually use it at all. POP UPS ARE EVIL!!

Same here. Why DO those stupid ads have to show up all the way down there anyway? Do they do it just because i'm obsessive-compulsive and can't have scrollbars on the edges of the AOL Browser, just to spite me?!?