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Deluge of Anti-Bush Pop-Ups
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Posted on 05/31/2004 12:27:06 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie

Yahoogroups.com is deluged with anti-Bush ads from the Kerry campaign. They account for almost 100% of the pop-up ads I see as I browse through my messages. Two-thirds simply bash Bush as opposed to extolling the virtues of Kerry. They're pretty damned annoying when all I want to do is catch up with my Atkins and Star Trek: Enterprise message boards!


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antibush; bush; fundraisingads; kerry
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To: ChocChipCookie

Kerry is absolutely vile. FYI, Kerry's fave food is ChocChipCookies.


21 posted on 05/31/2004 1:03:10 PM PDT by VanZant
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis; Hildy

P.S. In the strict mode, it blocks pretty much everything. You have to temporarily disable it if you want to let something open a new window via a javascript, and reenable it afterwards, but that's one click each.


22 posted on 05/31/2004 1:04:40 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (#1 Freeper Pickup Line: "You must be a Breaking News thread, 'cause I could bump you all night!")
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To: Hildy
Smart Popup Blocker is FREE and can intelligently kill those unsolicited pop-up, pop-under ads. I've used it in conjunction with the Google Toolbar with no problems. Pop Up Blocker Test is also worth a look. Be sure to see my previous post in this thread about detecting and removing spyware.
23 posted on 05/31/2004 1:13:58 PM PDT by happydogdesign
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To: happydogdesign

thx for posting this.


24 posted on 05/31/2004 1:16:32 PM PDT by sauropod (Paleo-cons make better lovers)
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To: ChocChipCookie

We get NO pop-ups using both Stopzilla and the Google pop-up blocker. We run Spy-Bot search and destroy once a week and have Norton anti-virus software running at all times.


25 posted on 05/31/2004 1:20:35 PM PDT by macrahanish #1
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To: ChocChipCookie
Popup Vanish.
26 posted on 05/31/2004 1:28:28 PM PDT by ScottFromSpokane (Re-elect President Bush: http://spokanegop.org/bush.html)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Maybe people will get sick of them and vote for Bush.


27 posted on 05/31/2004 1:34:18 PM PDT by Milligan
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To: William Creel

Check out www.safefirewall.com

Fixes all them pesky pop-up critters.


28 posted on 05/31/2004 2:38:34 PM PDT by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: ChocChipCookie
Is the kerry campaign trying to piss off voters?
29 posted on 05/31/2004 3:06:11 PM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: ChocChipCookie

I've noticed the same problem with Hanoi John messages on a conservative Anglican group on Yahoo I frequent.

They must think all Episcopalians/Anglicans are flaming left-wingers. Unfortunately. these are orthodox Christians who are outraged by the ECUSA's slide into the abyss. Not many Kerry supporters there, I would wager.


31 posted on 05/31/2004 4:25:22 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Petronski; ChocChipCookie

I use Mozilla for all my browsing now, except for one site that only wants to work with IE. No IE, no pop-ups.


32 posted on 05/31/2004 4:46:09 PM PDT by babaloo999 (Zionist troll since 2001)
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To: ChocChipCookie

I belong to a Yahoo group and I see those ads when I visit it, but I don't consider them "Pop-Up" ads. They're just ads on whatever page you're visiting. My Mozilla browser doesn't consider them pop-ups either or I wouldn't be seeing them. And just for the record, there is one ad that is PRO-President Bush. To my knowledge, both the F'n ads and the Bush ads are paid for by the respective campaigns.

I really don't like Yahoo anyway. That's one reason I switch from cable modem to SBC DSL because of their affiliation with Yahoo.


33 posted on 05/31/2004 4:55:55 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: arasina
Whoops. Left out a vital word in my sentence.

That's one reason I won't switch...

34 posted on 05/31/2004 4:56:43 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Get a pop-up stopper.


35 posted on 05/31/2004 5:59:06 PM PDT by atomicpossum (I give up! Entropy, you win!)
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To: ChocChipCookie
I haven't seen those Kerry Campaign popups but then again I minimize my use of Yahoo and some other sites that resort heavily to popups.

I have seen some shameless popups asking "Do you support Bush in the 2004 election? Answer and receive $50" (some of these I've seen on Drudge's site).

Some are just a come-on designed to generate a click through.

The Kerry Campaign has been bumping up their ads in Google searches though and they recently hired the scumbag who ran GWBush.com (an illegal election site he claimed was a parody). Expect a LOT MORE dirty tricks this campaign season.

36 posted on 05/31/2004 6:51:41 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: ChocChipCookie
Maybe we could get this used as a popup:

John Kerry's photograph is featured in the War Protestors Hall of the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City -- a clear indication of the value the Vietnamese communists place on Kerry's support of their efforts during the Vietnam War. The photograph was received in response to a general request last week for information documenting Kerry's activities on behalf of the enemy

37 posted on 05/31/2004 6:57:12 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: Milligan

Kind of odd when the Kerry Scampaign is running 2-to-1 ads against the other guy. Still haven't given Americans a reason they should vote for a traitor who is also a confessed war criminal.


38 posted on 05/31/2004 7:00:07 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: weegee
To clarify, 2 negative-candiate ads to 1 pro-candidate ad.
39 posted on 05/31/2004 7:03:49 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: Petronski; ChocChipCookie

BUMP... I agree.

Check 'FireFox' browser from http://www.mozilla.org

...Pop-ups do NOT have to be a problem anymore, even for 'non-techies'.


40 posted on 05/31/2004 10:08:00 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes ("Smart Growth...ISN'T !!!")
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