annoying pop ups

[top5jamaica]

can anyone point me to a good tool to buy / download to stop annoying pop ups and windows opening.

[digitalghost]

[opera.com...] :)

[heini]

Hi top5jamaica

Try Opera, the best browser for windows.
If you're on nix - Galeon or Moz can easily be configured to stop that.

[celerityfm]

You can also try Pop Up Stopper from [panicware.com...] -- they have a free version of the program-- and it doesn't require you to switch browsers!

[mat]

Or, go the whole hog and cut out .. oh, let's see - ALL banners, all sound, all Flash, all pop-ups/unders, all backgrounds, redirects - you name it.

Look at the 'how did I live without it' Proxomitron - [proxomitron.org...]

Free and Fab. Mat

[Nick_W]

Heini:
Opera also has a *nix version which in my opinion is by far the superior choice to Moz/Galeon ;)

Just hit <F12> and you get a 'quick preferences' menu where you can 'refuse popups'....

Nick

[top5jamaica]

hi all,
thanks for the fast response. i think i'll try a couple of the software suggestions before i switch to mozilla totally :)

[vibgyor79]

CrazyBrowser.com - It is free, it is similar to Opera (tabbed interface) and it uses Internet Explorer browser engine.

And hey, it tells you how many popups it has blocked!

Don't bother with the so-called "popup blocker" software. They are a waste of money. I'm not saying they don't do the job, its just that Opera/CrazyBrowser can do the job better, and it doesn't cost you $30

[jatar_k]

mozilla does it as well

www.mozilla.org

This is the best browser for windows. ;)

[buckworks]

Something to consider is that the popups you find annoying might not be coming from the site(s) you're visiting. They might be coming from "spyware" or "parasiteware" applications hiding in your computer. These nasty little critters watch where you surf and spawn a lot of uninvited, unwelcome popups on other people's sites.

You might find that cleaning the spyware out of your system would improve things considerably without having to make any other changes.

A free spyware removal utility that's worth checking out is Ad-Aware from [lavasoftusa.com...] .

[Mohamed_E]

A few days ago my ISP (earthlink.net) informed me that it had a popup blocker (free) available. I like it, it is configurable (I happily accept popups from webmasterworld) and, in any case, by double clicking on a link you can allow it to popup.

Also installed Ad-Aware (also free) and it removed quite a bit of junk from my computer. A posting on scumware somewhere on webmasterworld led me to it rather indirectly.

Now my question: Any suggestions for a free configurable cookie filter? I need cookies on many of the sites I visit, but do not want them from other sites.

[NeedScripts]

(I happily accept popups from webmasterworld)

Do you get popups on WebMasterWorld? I am sure that WebmasterWorld don't serve popups.

[Mohamed_E]

> Do you get popups on WebMasterWorld?

I am not sure what the definition of a popup is. When I click on a link at webmasterworld it opens in a new window, and my filter considers it a popup. I am, of course, happy to accept it and the program I use makes it an easily configured option.

[buckworks]

I think most of us would consider "opening a new browser when the user clicks a link" to be a different species of animal than "a new window that opens automatically without being requested by the user".

I think it's the second kind that causes the most frustration.

[Finder]

Any suggestions for a free configurable cookie filter?

Junkbuster [junkbuster.com] isn't very user-friendly but once you add the handful of sites you want to allow cookies from, your browser will automatically refuse cookies from most other sites. I say most because it can't stop javascript cookies. Fortunately I am also using Mozilla which allows you to permanently refuse cookies from sites. The two work quite well together.

[pkchukiss]

Proxomitron as mentioned by mat above allows you to even edit the cookies to return what you like.

Example: Cookie from www.nosuchsiteuknow.com

userid=pkchukiss&pass=asdfghjkl

Change it to:

userid=anonymous&pass=asdfsdf&IWantTo=ConfuseYou

You can use it to play with the server or simply block the cookie off. That's the power of Proxomitron. I am using it to give those privacy compromising websites a headache. I add rubbish to the cookies to confuse them.

Sometimes I think that I am the ultimate nemesis of these companies :-)