[TomServo]

Some members of my family have a hard time understanding that just 'cause you can click on something, you should click on something...live and learn.

[Lorenb420]

Internet users will continue to be plagued by unwanted pop-up adverts after a US judge ruled websites can do nothing to prevent companies placing ads on

Not if you use Mozilla Firebird :)

[Keith in Iowa]

No, we don't have to put up with pop-up/under/over ads. There are browsers that kill them - like Netscape & Opera - and there are also plenty of stand-alone programs that kill pop-ups as well.

[rdb3]

I don't have to "endure" any pop-up or pop-under, period.

[Siegfried]

Learn how to turn javascript on and off for your browser. I keep it turned off nearly all the time and it stops a lot of annoying behavior from some web sites. It also speeds up surfing since I'm not waiting for animated graphics to load. (I'm on a dial-up 56k and any additional speed-up of page loads is welcome.)

[mattdono]

"...once installed, it is difficult to remove

Difficult to remove?! That is the understatement of the year. Simply put, getting GATOR (or GAIN) uninstalled can be a b*tch. I used Ad-Aware to uninstall, but that wasn't easy either.

Speaking of SPAM, has anyone noticed how many popups Drudge has now. He used to have 1 when you came to the page for the first time that day. Now, you everytime I go to Drudge I get at least 2 pop ups. Also, at one point, I thought FR was doing pop ups (something that would have been VERY displeasing), but then realized it must have been an Ad serv on moving away from Drudge.

[moehoward]

Chimera for OSX (Jag)

No pop ups, never have been, never will.

[Cobra64]

The nanosecond a popup window pops up, I close it. Then I never go back to that site.

[Bacon Man]

Internet users will continue to be plagued by unwanted pop-up adverts after a US judge ruled websites can do nothing to prevent companies placing ads on their pages without permission.

Or they could use Opera as their browser, which has pop-up blocking built in.

[South40]

Windows users can avoid pop-ups by downloading a FREE version of Pop-up Stopper.

[SeaDragon]

"Alas, we computer users must endure pop-up advertising," district judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled in a US court in Virginia.

Not if you are a Mac user and run Apple's Safari.

:-)

[BibChr]

Not if you use www.avantbrowser.com.

It's the best, as far as I've seen. No popups. Free.

Dan

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Bump for future reference.

[Poser]

I use Popup Protector. It wasn't free, but it works great. If I want a popup, I simply hold the ctrl key down.

[Ronin]

I like my Avant Browser. It kills pop-ups 95 percent of the time. I use Ad-aware to flush out the spybots and thanks to the recent MSBlaster scare, my firewall is nice and tight.

[EagleMamaMT]

Read later.

[Prodigal Son]

I've been using a combo of the new Google toolbar and Norton Firewall. Seems to have banished pop-ups from my online experience.

[xp38]

Just stick to FR. Problem solved.

[HitmanLV]

I have a net business and go to net marketing seminars - the guys in that niche hawk popups, popovers, exit popups, etc, as one of the holy grails of internet marketing in the 21st century. "Increases subscriptions 400%!' etc.

Every season has a new fad - popups and related stuff were trumpeted a lot in 2001 and 2002.

I don't use them by the way, since I know they tick me off, I expect they tick off potential customers, too,

[battousai]

as mentioned before ad-awre does wonders to get rid of gator et al, www.lavasoft.de

and for those of you with firewalls I compiled a nice list of gator servers that I observed the evil little software trying to connect to, block all outbound traffic to those IPs (thats until gator corp gets more servers)

66.35.229.236
64.152.73.140
64.152.73.172
64.152.73.204
64.152.73.236
66.35.229.140
66.35.229.172
66.35.229.204

Put that in your pipe and smoke it judge, sure you may rule its legal, but we don't have to put up with it.