Pop-up ads

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Anyone know of a site that has a TON of pop-up ads? Want to really put WebBlinds's SmartBlocker through its paces.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
do a porn search and you will find thousand of sites with never ending pop-up ads....
or go to any geocities site
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
popups... what's popups?!?!?! (said the smart user of iNet-Tabs)
Star Control: Origins
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Any chance you could add a line of code to WebBlinds that would specifically block pop up ads for X10 cameras. Ohh they are annoying.....

Bill
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
But so cheap and convenient! For just $89 you can ge>
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
x10 kicks ass. Fortunately you can use their xray-vision program (free) with usb webcams, thus NOT spening $89+ on their cameras . Other than that, I have several rooms running off of X-10 modules.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Place the following in your hosts file to block the X10 ads:

ads.x10.com 127.0.0.1

More info on the hosts file can be found here:

http://www.smartin-designs.com/
http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What is X10?
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
x 10s are these crazy little webcams they advertise via 'pop-unders.' you don't know it's there until you close your browser with the close box, then lo and behold, it's not really closed because there's one last window - the x10 ad.. i'm sure some ad agency told it would be 'dramatic' ;]
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
According to MediaMetrix, x10.com is in the top 10 websites in traffic. So it must be working!
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Depends on what you mean by working. They're only measuring traffic, which is forced upon the user by their aggressive marketing campaign. It's not measuring clicks by actual interested consumers. Anybody could be top 10 if they wanted to spend the money to place their ads everywhere. I'm not impressed. I also think they're generating a tremendous amount of ill will.

www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092788,00.html
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good tip Tarkus... i knew about the hosts file since long, cause of all that PPP and router sh*t, but never thinked of using it to redirect the web servers to local host
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, considering they are also linked with the msn homepage that's not suprising....

x10 is comming close on my list to Sam Jain of e-Front...