first floating dhtml ad blocker

seems to work

[amznVibe]

remember the thread a couple weeks ago on the "new" annoying floating dhtml ads that fly across the screen?

(well its a repeating thread theme
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...] )

Discovered today that the new version of ZeroPopup (5.0) claims to be the first one to block them.
I'm browsing around with it now, and it seems to work, though most of those ads fly only the first visit anyway so its hard for me to tell.

I've always liked zeropopup cause of its small memory footprint and because its really an IE toolbar so its a bit smarter.
Only for IE 5.x+6.x though. I wonder how they do the filtering for that, and what type of normal pages it potentially breaks.

[tooto.com...]

[Chuma]

The badly scaled graphics make the site look cheap and untrustworthy though.
(Just my opinion.)

Thanks.

[amznVibe]

lol that's a good observation but their product has been around for a few years now and reviewed by many magazines... some companies just don't have a clue about web design, though they should know better enough to hire an outside designer in that case!

[amznVibe]

Just to update this, while its a very good popup blocker, at least this first version of "floating ad blocking" is not good enough... it breaks a few pages in weird ways that I didn't realize at first... I think it plays with the body onLoad tags and those are sometimes critical for some pages even without ads :(