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Pop-Ups Drive Customers Away
Media Buyer ^ | 7/28/05

Posted on 07/28/2005 3:26:04 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Seventy percent of consumers said they were unlikely to purchase from, or even return to, a Web site that has pop-up advertising, registration log-on pages, software installation, or slow-loading pages, E-Commerce Times reports.

A study, commissioned by Hostway, a Chicago-based Web site hosting service, found that approximately 35 percent of visitors to commercial sites said pop-up ads were their number one pet peeve.

More than 24 percent of the respondents said they were extremely or somewhat likely to complain to the company when they were exasperated by a site.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: ads; internet; news
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1 posted on 07/28/2005 3:26:04 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

"Seventy percent of consumers said they were unlikely to purchase from, or even return to, a Web site that has pop-up advertising, registration log-on pages, software installation, or slow-loading pages, E-Commerce Times reports."

Once again, common sense works just as well and usually a lot faster than most studies.


2 posted on 07/28/2005 3:27:52 PM PDT by Sofa King (MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Drudge Report was removed from my bookmarks this morning for that very reason.

Clicked on two stories and got SIX pop-ups.

Bye, Matt.


3 posted on 07/28/2005 3:27:55 PM PDT by jra
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To: Sofa King

Yep...the first sentence just about sums it up. No additional information necessary.


4 posted on 07/28/2005 3:29:40 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: jra

I quit going to Drudge when spyware was installed there. That was quite enough for me.


5 posted on 07/28/2005 3:30:34 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

They needed a study to figure this out?


6 posted on 07/28/2005 3:31:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Common sense prevails once again.

Duh?

It amazes me that the folks that design this stuff could look at popup ads and say with a straight face, "Oh, yeah! The visitors to our site are gonna LOVE this!"

I guess some people are just stupid.

7 posted on 07/28/2005 3:32:18 PM PDT by upchuck ("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Well shoot, I could have told you that.


8 posted on 07/28/2005 3:32:48 PM PDT by 4mycountry (This tag dedicated to ~ The Legend of Zelda 2005)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

This is such a surprise. /sarcasm off


9 posted on 07/28/2005 3:33:55 PM PDT by GOP_Proud (...when the Iraqi soldiers stand up, we will stand down...GWB)
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To: jra
"Drudge Report was removed from my bookmarks this morning for that very reason.

Clicked on two stories and got SIX pop-ups.

Bye, Matt."

Were the popups the result of exiting the Drudge Report (code from the Drudge site), or due to code on the news sites you visited that were linked at Drudge's site? If it's the latter, Drudge isn't at fault. BTW, I noticed a while back that Drudge's own site popups appear now even while using Firefox with popup blocking enabled. A solution is:

Like you, I love Firefox for many reasons, including popup blocking. So over the last few weeks I’ve been surprised to see occasional popups.

It turns out that some clever people figured out that you could launch popups from Flash, getting around the Firefox default settings.

Fortunately, you can get around it:

Type about:config into the Firefox location bar. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins Set the value to 2.
The possible values are:

0: Allow all popups from plugins.
1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
2: Block popups from plugins.
3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.


10 posted on 07/28/2005 3:34:33 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: jra

I wondered how people dealt with that


11 posted on 07/28/2005 3:34:35 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (I urge Roberts to support all sections of the Constitution which uphold abortion)
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I hate registration sites.

I'm a bugmenot fanatic.


12 posted on 07/28/2005 3:35:19 PM PDT by GOP_Proud (...when the Iraqi soldiers stand up, we will stand down...GWB)
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Absolutely. Problem is users put up with Tracking cookies, Ad- and Malware.

You know what I can't stand is a site so over-Javaed it looks like a pinball machine.

:-)


13 posted on 07/28/2005 3:36:13 PM PDT by cloud8
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To: monkapotamus

I was going to have people email me in order to privately explain methods of getting around the problem, why make it obvious to the URLs?


14 posted on 07/28/2005 3:36:45 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (I urge Roberts to support all sections of the Constitution which uphold abortion)
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To: cloud8

over-Java'd or over-Flashed?


15 posted on 07/28/2005 3:38:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: monkapotamus

SUPER!! it worked!

Thank you...


16 posted on 07/28/2005 3:42:54 PM PDT by It's me
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

You don't say! ..... ;)


17 posted on 07/28/2005 3:46:18 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the"and Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: It's me
You're welcome. Here is the original source of the information - I found it last week while searching Google:

Firefox popups

http://www.petebevin.com/archives/2005/03/10/firefox_popups.html

18 posted on 07/28/2005 3:47:48 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: jra
Ditto.

Every time I hit Drudge I spend an hour cleaning up.

I would never purchase anything from a pop up, and I hope aQ gets them all.
19 posted on 07/28/2005 3:48:27 PM PDT by mmercier (enter the land of unintended consequence)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Seventy percent of consumers said they were unlikely to purchase from, or even return to, a Web site that has pop-up advertising

That's exactly what happened at the Drudge Report, numerous popups caused me to quit going there.

20 posted on 07/28/2005 3:49:59 PM PDT by RJL
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