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Whats up with this?
Consider it the result
of a pet peeve. We find pop-up/pop-under advertisments deceitful and annoying.
If anyone honestly wanted these products or services, they would would find them
on their own.
There are a number of ways to stop this intrusive form of
advertising. There are software programs that nip the problem in the bud by
disabling additional instances of your browser. This is ok until you have a
legitimate reason for having multiple windows open. Another method is to seed
your HOSTS file with the addresses of ad servers. It works but its messy often
resulting in the popups displaying with an error message.
Another method
is through opt out cookies. A cookie is a small file that resides on your
computer contains information about how you wish to interact with a website.
Most adserver companies offer optout cookies, finding them can be a tedious
process.
The drawback to opt out cookies are: Cookies are computer and
browser specific. They tell the adserver to disable the popup only for the
computer that the cookie lives on. If the user employs both Netscape and IE they
will need cookies for both browsers. (This goes for any other browsers that may
be used like Opera, etc). Cookies expire. They may be set to expire in a day,
month, year or any period of time. X10 expires their cookie after thirty days.
Most adservers do not list life of the cookie. This means that once the cookie
expires you will need to opt out again to receive another one.
Despite
the drawbacks to optout cookies; these are the easiest, cleanest way to stop the
ads at their source. All you need to do is click a link and it's done. There are
many adservers in use today. As we acquire more opt out links we will post them
here.
From technoerotica.net.
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