Judge bars California firm from placing pop-up ads at other Web sites

Associated Press ^ | 7-15-02 | MICHAEL BUETTNER

[Oldeconomybuyer]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) --

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It's a start ...

[Mike-o-Matic]

   But Gator likens its practice with having multiple windows from multiple applications open at once: To ban its ads would be to ban running instant messaging and a Web browser at the same time.

What the heck are these guys smoking??!? That's about the biggest dung-heap of a defense I've ever heard of.

[Houmatt]

I agree. I am getting sick of my browser being overrrun with popups, some you cannot close, to the point your computer freezes up. That is SO ridiculous!

[Strider]

If Gator loses this case, it could be the end of other ScumWare like TopText. Perhaps these leaches could develop their own content and market their sites like the rest of us.

[Ingtar]

Lavasoft has a little program called ad-aware that removes the footprints that many of these programs create on your system.

[Blue Screen of Death]

PC Magazine has a free utility called CookieCop2 that blocks popups and really gives a handle on cookies. It is a tad technical, so if you think a proxy server is a bleached blond waitress, you might want to skip it.

[AdA$tra]

I am sick and tired of removing Gator and other parasite applications from client and user PC's. Remember the good ol' days when the only catch to shareware was either a nag now and again or a timebomb feature. Now almost all sharewares come bundled with spyware then nag you anyway.

[BJungNan]

But Gator likens its practice with having multiple windows from multiple applications open at once: To ban its ads would be to ban running instant messaging and a Web browser at the same time.

If anyone believes this stupid line...GATOR, you are such low lifes. If anyone from GATOR is reading this, I don't have words strong enough to let you know the contempt I have for you.

[philo]

Get Ad-aware for Gator.

Get POW! for pop-ups.

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pow.htm

Unlike Pop-Up Stopper which tends to freeze your browser every now and then, each time a pop-up ad comes up, you place it in POW! and it never comes back again.

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[scouse]

so if you think a proxy server is a bleached blond waitress

That could be my first wife. The first time I saw her skating across the parking lot carrying her tray full of burgers and cokes she took my breath away. Later on she took away my house, my car, my bank account, my best friend and my roller skates.:^(

[BJungNan]

Lavasoft has a little program called ad-aware that removes the footprints that many of these programs create on your system.

Good suggestion. I installed it and found a ton of spyware lurking. Best of all, it does not slow down your browsing and system like some of the other software does.

Not sure of the link. I found it at gogov.com. They had a link to it and I downloaded from there. Oh, and it is free.

[DAnconia55]

agree. I am getting sick of my browser being overrrun with popups, some you cannot close, to the point your computer freezes up. That is SO ridiculous!

Waaaaaaaa! waaaaaah! Sniff.

[Willie Green]

What the heck are these guys smoking??!? That's about the biggest dung-heap of a defense I've ever heard of.

Well, it's pretty standard libertarian business philosophy,
so I guess you're right,
they gotta be smoking something that impairs their senses.

[Exit148]

Pop-ups are a pain!

But someting happened with the 'e-mail spam' a week or so ago, that I hope isn't going to be a trend. There was one from a mortgage co. and one from a viagra site. I tried to do as I usually do -- left-click to highlight it, then click on 'delete' on the upper bar. Well, the place on the e-mail, where I had the arrow turned white. The white was only on half -- the other half was blue. It wouldn't let me delete it! I moved the arrow to the blue half, and THAT side turned white. It was a game! I finally right-clicked it and got rid of it on the drop down menu. (As I making myself clear?)

I just went to the delete file to check it out, and the same thing happened. Has anyone else experienced this?

[Robert_Paulson2]

download and install a "free" popup killer... or consider switching to another os for web browsing. I don't notice much in the way of popups in mozilla (not netscape aol style version). I am not sure about the opera browsers' handling of popups, but the linux systems here never have a problem with popups...

[Houmatt]

Waaaaaaaa! waaaaaah! Sniff.

Hey! Check it out!

"There's a troll in the dungeon!"

(pause)

"Thought you ought to know."

[JoeSixPack1]

Opera has this wonderful little button that sez "REFUSE POP-UPS" once checked, pop-ups are gone.

Also easily restored with 3 clicks of the mouse so that sites that use pop-ups for extended info are easily available.

[Jack of all Trades]

I don't understand how this can be illegal. If I wanted to start a coffee shop, I could find the location of every Starbuck's in the world and build one of mine right next to it. I could mail a marketing survey to everyone on the planet and then send the responders targeted advertising. Entrenched businesses have no more right to a market than new comers. The internet levels the playing field by reducing the resources needed to reach a wide audience.

Now, I hate pop ups and spam as much as anyone else, but I take measures to eliminate it. In my mind it starts with being fully aware that I run my own computer, and I have connected it to a public network more akin to a CB radio than to a telephone as a means of communication.