Well, we all hate them, but anser me this: Have you ever made a purchase because you saw it in a pop-up ad?

I can honestly say that I've never read an entire pop-up, much less responded to one. I hate them more than one could imagine!

alt f4 before they even get to load the picture of what they are trying to sell.
so, no, i have never bought anything from them.

The only things Pop Ups...or Pop Under ads are successful in accomplishing is getting the computer user to download applications that will eventually corrupt a computer! Happens at work all the time. You go to click on the X box in the corner to close the ad... and by doing so activate an invisible download into your computer. I never knew that was possible! But guess what - it sure is

Pop-ups have got to be the most annoying thing of late!
I used to start to read them now I just delete them as soon as they 'pop-up'
I have just got upgraded to AOL 8 and thankfully there are not so many now, I was getting 20-30 a DAY befor

My son installed "Stop-the-Pop" and I LOVE it! I have to hold the shift or Ctrl key to open wanted windows, but it's worth it!
Also - he was going through files on the computer yesterday and found all sorts of spyware and other files that we didn't download!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kendor:
I can honestly say that I've never read an entire pop-up, much less responded to one. I hate them more than one could imagine![/QUOTE]

Ditto on that. If I even saw something I had been looking for for a long time, I wouldn't buy it, just because it was a pop up! I HATE THEM!

NO WAY!!!

I ALWAYS close them the second they pop-up, I couln't even tell you who most of them are!!!

I've never read a pop-up in my life.. and certainly never bought from one!

I have them all blocked, so I never actually see them, but I suspect the odds of buying anything from such marketing are very, very, extremely low ~ somewhere below zero.

I close them right away.

What about you Yankees...have you made a purchase from pop-ups?

No way! I hate pop-ups and shut them down immediately. They are so annoying that I wouldn't want to encourage marketers to continue using them. Pop-ups suck!

So if everyone never even pays the slightest bit of attention to them...WHY are they there????

Well I've never bought anything from TV, magazines/newspapers (unless it's a coupon), radio, billboard, airplane, sandpicture or anything. If I saw a pop-up I wanted, I'd go. I've think I've gotten too much in the habit of closing it before I read it though. Usually most of them aren't selling food or something. I think they've also got a bad image of being scams because of a few.

Even though it seems like everyone here ignores them (I block them completely) pop-up ads have been shown to have a higher click-through rate than banner ads, which is why advertisers are willing to pay more money for them. Annoying, definitely, but apparently more effective than banners.

i don't like it

A lot of sites that have them I avoid going back to those sites as much as possible. I mean come on-I am on a site to see something and a pop up comes on trying to block my viewing of a web page so I can go to their website or whatever to be confronted with a boring ad? No Thanks

Methos, how do you block them completely?
I'm sure everyone would be interested.

To date I have not purchased
anything from a pop-up, but the
majority of them do not bother
me. I know that many of the
"free" sites I access could not
afford to stay in business
without them, so I just accept
them as part of my net experience.
The only exception is the very
few I have encountered which I was
unable to close. No little X in the
corner, they stuck around till I
re-booted.

Jenny - I use CookieCop2 form PCMag. It was free when I got it, but I've been told they charge for it now.

Other ways:

Use Opera web browser (opera.com) instead of Netscape or Internet Explorer. It has an option for rejecting pop-ups

Use one of the other programs recommended in one of these threads:

http://www.answerpool.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=669605981&f=803605642&m=2186062211

http://www.answerpool.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=669605981&f=294601891&m=6116038532

http://www.answerpool.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=669605981&f=833605642&m=9276003271

http://www.answerpool.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=669605981&f=803605642&m=4906042822

http://www.answerpool.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=669605981&f=719609502&m=6566087262

(and I think there are more burried in the beginner's issues section)

I can't really tell you which is best of those, but ivnj seems to have strong opinions about it.