Annoying popup

The TJT · Post by **The TJT** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 4:31 am

I hate this "claim your free gifts" popup window that occasionally pops, when entering MARP. I can't even close it...only way that works for me is to go to "task manager"-"end task"...Who put it there anyway?

I'm using NT 4 + IE 6

Why Chris M has not registered here? Don't leave us Zwaxy!!!!

Tommi

Post by **mahlemiut** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 5:01 am

Yes, it is damn annoying. I get it plenty of times when visiting the main Retrogames page. So much for one popup a month.

To close it, click the 'click here' at the bottom of the popup.

The TJT · Post by **The TJT** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 7:18 am

It didn't come to mind click it, I avoid clicking anywhere of that kind of annoyin banners...someone might even get paid for putting such a nuisance at their page

Post by **gameboy9** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 8:40 am

I can tell you to press alt+f4 to close the window if that shows up.

I think it's ZTNet's or Emulation World's policy - I don't think there's anything either of us can do besides changing servers...

Post by **seymour** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 9:52 am

Popup ads (and ads in general) suck. But with Mozilla, I never see any unwanted popup windows (I found that a lot of popup blockers for Windows/IE tended to break ALL window.open() JavaScript stuff, not just the ad popups).

Yes, I'm on a Mozilla propaganda trip today

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 11:14 am

you meant ZTNET makes hidden popups in the websites it hosts and it doesn't reimburse marp for webfees for the clicks it produces? that's pretty lame. i always thouhght they were what was supporting marp...

Post by **gameboy9** » Fri Mar 22, 2002 11:38 am

Vintage Gaming actually blamed their ROM shutdown through ZTNet (who "used" the IDSA) so they could monopolize the market, or that's what they think... let's think about it though:

We have about... anywhere between 1/4 and 1/2 of a gigabyte of hard disk space that we're using, probably quite a bit of bandwidth, too. Few people would sacrifice that for only 400 hits / day... something to think about.