Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue May 27 13:30:30 CDT 2014
The people that design popups are getting much more sophisticated. Most popup blockers just look at the domain call that the popup is using, and then decides whether to block it or not. There are a number of ways around that strategy. If the ad is pushed directly into the current page, then displayed or preloaded, there is no way to tell where it comes from, or if the popup is coming directly from the local domain or looks like it is coming locally, there is no way to know whether the object is a local popup help screen or an ad. With these sort of ad designs, that use carefully engineered pages, it would take magic to detect them. Welcome to the new world of ads. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Tesiny" <eptept at gmail.com> To: "Off Topic" <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com>, "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 4:54:21 AM Subject: [dba-Tech] Firefox Pop-ups (Cross-posted) Lately I've been getting a lot of pop-ups in Firefox even though block pop-ups is checked. Also, a lot of these 4-5 questions surveys that want to offer you merchandise and reduced prices. Anyone with similar situation and possible solution. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com