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From: Justin on 9 Dec 2009 14:11 Arizona Willie wrote on [Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:17:04 -0600]: > Arizona Willie <sclause(a)npole.com> wrote in > news:Xns9CDB739243781azwilliecoxnet(a)216.196.97.130: > >> John <john(a)noaddress.com> wrote in >> news:X9CdnYD7V7qrV4DWnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d(a)posted.grandecom: >> >>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >>>> John wrote: >>>>> Quivis wrote: >>>>>> On 05 dec 2009, "Arizona Willie" <sclause(a)npole.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Anyone know how to stop those damn Netflix popunder ads? I've got >>>>>>> Adblocker and Firefox and IE set to block popups but the damn >>>>>>> things still keep coming. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Nothing stops them it seems. >>>>>> >>>>>> Perhaps something can be done using Greasemonkey scripts...? >>>>> >>>>> Quivis, can you explain what this Greasemonkey does? I don't want >>>>> to put something on my computer I don't know anything about. I also >>>>> would like to get rid of that d**n Netflick pop-up. It's very >>>>> bothersome. >>>> >>>> as far as I could find, there were no netflick greasemonkey scripts. >>>> >>> >>> I don't get the Netflix pop-up all the time. I only get it when I >>> open Yahoo as my home page. The pop-up will show itself once every >>> four or five homepage openings. It's about a 4x6 frame size right in >>> the middle of Yahoo's home page. I contacted Yahoo asking about it, >>> but naturally, and I knew, it didn't do any good. I'm sure there >>> getting a few pennies each time it pops up. I'm thinking about >>> changing my home page and see if I still get it. >>> >> >> ================= >> Adding the hostfile that was recommended a few posts back seemed to > cure >> the problem for me. Haven't seen a Netflix ad for the last 3 days or > so. >> >> Do see some ads that are apparently imbedded in the page, but no > popups. >> > > =========== > And a day after I post this I get a Netflix popup. > > This time I took the url at the top of the ad: http://cdn.optmd.com/ > and cut the http:// off the front of it and added it to my host file. > > The actual url was longer than that, but I cut it down to the main > address. This looks to possibly be a company hosting these ads so I > wanted to stop ALL ads coming from the company, not just Netflix. > > I believe this is a different url than what was on the ad before. > Possibly they are using shifting names or something, I dunno. > Or maybe the put a url at the top of the ad that has NOTHING to do with > the ad. > > There's gotta be some way to stop these *ssholes. You do realise the netflix ads are helping to pay to keep these sites online, right? If they are smarter than you then more power to them.
From: Arizona Willie on 10 Dec 2009 10:32
John <john(a)noaddress.com> wrote in news:e7Kdna8QhI5zRILWnZ2dnUVZ_h1i4p2d(a)posted.grandecom: > Arizona Willie wrote: >> Arizona Willie <sclause(a)npole.com> wrote in >> news:Xns9CDB739243781azwilliecoxnet(a)216.196.97.130: >> >>> John <john(a)noaddress.com> wrote in >>> news:X9CdnYD7V7qrV4DWnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d(a)posted.grandecom: >>> >>>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >>>>> John wrote: >>>>>> Quivis wrote: >>>>>>> On 05 dec 2009, "Arizona Willie" <sclause(a)npole.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Anyone know how to stop those damn Netflix popunder ads? I've got >>>>>>>> Adblocker and Firefox and IE set to block popups but the damn >>>>>>>> things still keep coming. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Nothing stops them it seems. >>>>>>> Perhaps something can be done using Greasemonkey scripts...? >>>>>> Quivis, can you explain what this Greasemonkey does? I don't want >>>>>> to put something on my computer I don't know anything about. I also >>>>>> would like to get rid of that d**n Netflick pop-up. It's very >>>>>> bothersome. >>>>> as far as I could find, there were no netflick greasemonkey scripts. >>>>> >>>> I don't get the Netflix pop-up all the time. I only get it when I >>>> open Yahoo as my home page. The pop-up will show itself once every >>>> four or five homepage openings. It's about a 4x6 frame size right in >>>> the middle of Yahoo's home page. I contacted Yahoo asking about it, >>>> but naturally, and I knew, it didn't do any good. I'm sure there >>>> getting a few pennies each time it pops up. I'm thinking about >>>> changing my home page and see if I still get it. >>>> >>> ================= >>> Adding the hostfile that was recommended a few posts back seemed to >> cure >>> the problem for me. Haven't seen a Netflix ad for the last 3 days or >> so. >>> Do see some ads that are apparently imbedded in the page, but no >> popups. >> >> =========== >> And a day after I post this I get a Netflix popup. >> >> This time I took the url at the top of the ad: http://cdn.optmd.com/ >> and cut the http:// off the front of it and added it to my host file. >> >> The actual url was longer than that, but I cut it down to the main >> address. This looks to possibly be a company hosting these ads so I >> wanted to stop ALL ads coming from the company, not just Netflix. >> >> I believe this is a different url than what was on the ad before. >> Possibly they are using shifting names or something, I dunno. >> Or maybe the put a url at the top of the ad that has NOTHING to do with >> the ad. >> >> There's gotta be some way to stop these *ssholes. > > Arizona, that's like trying to stop all these ***holes, putting spam on > this website. If their brain was gunpowder, there wouldn't be enough > there to blow their nose. > ========= Nah, they are very very smart. They have figured out how to defeat every known popup blocker. They must use some kind of rotating servers or something, because no sooner do you think you have them stopped one way than here they pop up again. Even adding the hosts file didn't stop them. Evil, yes, stupid ... no. |