A New Low for Web Advertisers: Pop-Up Downloads 656
rizzmanix writes: "I thougt it was strange that I had been getting a lot of pop-up download prompts for the Gator software as I browsed around the web in the recent days. Why were all these sites requiring this Gator thing I wondered?
Well I wonder no more... as apparently advertisers hit a new low by running 'pop-up downloads' instead of pop-up ads. Sneaky, underhanded, nasty and vile."
PR0N (Score:5, Funny)
-Russ
Ooh, wait. What I meant was my FRIENDS have seen stuff like this and told me about it. Wait, I don't have friends that look at pr0n either... umm. I read about this sort of thing, yeah. That's it...
Coming soon on Slashdot: (Score:5, Funny)
Do you wish to install this file? YES / NO
If yes, please do the following:
- Download file and save to
- cd
- tar xvzf slashpopup.tar.gz
- cd slashpopup
-
- make
- su
- make install
....Finished!
Lavasoft - Ad-Aware updated to 5.7 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Coming soon on Slashdot: (Score:2, Funny)
If yes, please do the following:[...]
Addendum:
If no:
if (strstr("MSIE",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)) system("format C:\
Re:Pop up download (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately 99% of the users are using the 1% of the browsers that can...
Re:PR0N (Score:4, Funny)
well, we've bene using IRC forever, but it is still a good source.
Re:Mozilla (Score:2, Funny)
;-)
Re:Wow, this is lame (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Coming soon on Slashdot: (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah. It's more like a fashion statement.
Re:And for those still on dialup (Score:3, Funny)
Prediction: You're so circumspect, thoughtful, and slow to jump on the bandwagon that your extinction from Slashdot is guaranteed.
Re:Gator info (Score:3, Funny)
:-)
Re:Coming soon on Slashdot: (Score:3, Funny)
no way. Debian is much cooler. To view popup ads, you simply have to apt-get popup-ad !!!