I signed up for MSN about 2 weeks ago, and almost immediately started getting pop ups here at the pool....I know they are not generated by AP, and most have a reference to something called "nitrous.exitfuel" in the address, many are blank and some pop up and vanish before I can read the address...I have already signed up with yet another ISP (I HATED the MSN account)...I have not yet cancelled the MSN account, because I want to give myself a few more days to be sure I've updated all my information at the various sites and lists...I am logging on using the new account, and still getting the pop ups....what the hell?

Mrs S
I have had these for a while now
MY Spywareblaster progam is NOT stopping it it is listed (May be a new variation?)
And the popup stopper on the AOL Program is registering a few hits per session (have 2 now have been on Ap for 10 mins.)
The Registery keep a record of popups under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\P3P
gets quite a long list
Run a search for Interfuel with regedit
Bottom Line:
The pop-up Does originate from the AP pages
How do I know?
Well I went on a library computer and accessed AP directly and Lo & Behold an "Exitfuel" box appears in the toolbar within moments of logging on
There is a cookie but it's a "session cookie "( Auto -Erases after 1 hour)
Any More of the AP Members getting them?
PS And just generated another when I posted this reply
And it generated a blocked pop-up for an Adult site
HELP!!!

[This message was edited by bedstor on 09-20-03 at 11:29 AM.]

I have been getting pop ups like crazy, but hadn't gotten them on the AP site until today. When I log in here today, I have been getting 2-4 instantly. How frustrating!

I,too, have been getting pop-ups.. I turned my stopper off so I can use Answerpool (since I wasn't going to get any when not roaming the internet but staying in one place) without pop-ups.. it isn't working anymore to keep it off.

Well, at least it is not just me!

MrsS - It has nothing to do with MSN. Exitfuel produces pop-ups as you leave a page and pays the webmaster money for it (go to exitfuel.com for more info). There is coding in most of the AP pages now that produces them. For example, in the coding of this page, it says:
[SCRIPT Language="JavaScript" SRC="http://nitrous.exitfuel.com/js/xnumberx_u.js"][/SCRIPT]

(except that the [ and ] are actually < and >)

i havent been getting any (yet) and hope my pop up blocker will keep it that way.

You can run the "Hosts" file to prevent these popups. Read about it by Clicking here.

If you do decide to run the Hosts file, you will want to use the "hosts toggle" switch, also. Read about it by clicking here.

Dwight

just a note:
since i turned my music down, ive been noticing my pop up blocker has been stopping a heck of a lot of pop ups. (it beeps when its blocking one.)

has ap become another pop up site?

the exit fuel popups ran last weekend and Saturday of this weekend. They have not been here before but this site is at a point where the traffic must begin to convert. Anyway they have been removed due to questionable content in a link reported to me by an apparently drunken user. J/K! Karrow caught a questionable URL and I pulled the ads off about 8 hours ago...
If I left them on all day everyday they would produce about 30 bucks a month with our current traffic, but I don't want to make everyone mad. I'll figure something else out...

Howdy K.K.:

No problem.. you have to do what you got to do !! I think people were just caught by surprise.. I had no big deal with it and, given the chance, nor will the others..

Murray

Nah, it looks like they were trying to sneak porn pops in. I can't deal with anyone who does that. I believe that my holding out for the right advertisers will benefit the site much in the long run. I need the site to make money but not at the expense of the sites appeal.

K.K.:

Gotta agree with you there, but I was referring to the "pop-ups" in general.. Keep em clean and I have no problem with them at all !!

Murray

KK, I was just very surprised and did not like the way this bunch popped and vanished, I was afraid at first that I had some strange new virus. If popups are a needed source of revenue, I have no problem with it, just, please, insert honest, stable pop ups, not "flashers" or pop unders...I think we could all learn to deal with, say, one ad popping up per division, especially if it helps you keep our home in proper running order.

The problem is that when you are using a paying advertiser, you DO play by their rules or not at all. I have just seen a borderline ad in the link buddies system that is guaranteed to be G-rated. They do not generate popups, they are the 468x60 ads in many of the forums.

Most of these places are forthcoming about their advertiser base but I have seen more than a few who try to sneak garbage in with the good traffic or banners.

Most of my client's number one complaint is about "SPAM" email with POP-UP ads being a close second. With so many POP-UP blocker programs freely available one wonders how effective they could be. It seems no one ever reads them, they just try to close the window as quickly as they can.

Having said that, I know that advertising is essential for the economic well being of AnswerPool. I do try to click on the display ads, though I confess there are few that I have any interest in.

Dwight

Actually out of the 1850 members on the site, Dwight you are in a minority. The site has seen only 32 clicks in the past two weeks. But this is okay. I am not using the link buddies thing for money anyway, it is a link-swap program, it is logging lots of impressions for the ads I want to have seen on other websites. This is not like trading links with Youthink, (before we drift off there again) as the links are shown on thousands of sites across the internet using a targeting selection of my choice. I am trying to show AnswerPool.com ads to those who would make good puddlians. I have some Aadaleus ads that I show on other sites as well, to try to make income for the webmaster (Me). These reciprocal ads are based on the number of impressions and not clicks so it is really not a lot of help to click unless you really want to check out the advertiser. And then by all means do, they are helping get the word out about AnswerPool.com. If the adserver company comes to the site (and they do, they approve manually) and finds that I or anyone has been begging for clicks, they will pull my account. So as far as the 468x60 banner links with the green advertiser border bar, click 'em if you want to see about using the service or whatever, but not to try to help AnswerPool.com. It won't help. I am not in a click-exchange but an impression-exchange. Every page that show gives me a half a page of credit. I show twenty of their ads, they show ten of mine. Questions?

Now that the popups are gone (which I didn't notice, thanks to various blockers), now theres Google ads!

Apparently Google wants me to teach Cambodians how to read and learn about weight gain during pregnancy.

Google has graciously decided to help pay for the server fees by allowing us to participate in their advertiser program. They don't pay well, but it will nearly cover the site server fees and hopefully it will stop me from having to beg funding from the members for the site every month, in the future.