nellie2 Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 want to test your popup stopper software??Run the tests here This site also rates commercial and free pop up stoppers. Apparently the top performing free one is EMS Free Surfer I have never heard of it... does anyone use it??? :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Interesting!I use the google toolbar and it failed to stop 5 of the tests :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Interesting!I use the google toolbar and it failed to stop 5 of the tests :(err mine passed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 I use pop-up stopper and even though I don't get pop-ups in everyday use it still failed on about 5 or 6 tests :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Firefox failed on 3 :angry: 'spose i could have disabled java tho :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 yes I have used it nel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted February 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Any good Ellas?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 mark2 thats strange when i did it with firefox it only failled 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 failed on mouseover, dropdown and sticky tests :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blink_182_fan Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 mine failed on mouseover and drop down and i just did sticky tests and just noticed its there i didnt really read the thing the 1st time what it said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Combination of SlimBrowser + AdMuncher and I passed all the bad tests :) however, I only saw one of the 4 good ones :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 yes it was good nel,lost it when I did a reformat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Interesting site that, thanks. Using Norton personal firewall and Google bar. Only saw one pop up, and that was the one set to work on entry to the site. It did NOT pop up on exit. I'm quite happy with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreePatriot Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 Mozilla 1.6 passed all the tests....haven't tested Firefox yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Apparently the top performing free one is EMS Free Surfer I have never heard of it... does anyone use it??? :huh:Just downloaded this earlier on today, seems pretty good so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 my free popup stoper worked fine :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Hi I used EMS Free Surfer for about 2 years and i must say that it was very good, the PC internal speaker gave a little beep every time a pop up was stopped.I now use the google tool bar, which is ok, but since i installed the latest Kerio Firewall the google tool bar pop up stopper is now defunkt.Cos the firewall stops all the pop up as they pass through it.On the test link you gave i only failed on the 3 floating pop ups.Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 With the amount of pop up stopper software now available, I'm surprised that company's still bother using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Continuing from andsome's post, popups seem to be universally disliked so, even ignoring the presence of stopping software, why was it considered that popups were a good sales method at all? Irritating your potential customer is not the best way of increasing sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Continuing from andsome's post, popups seem to be universally disliked so, even ignoring the presence of stopping software, why was it considered that popups were a good sales method at all? Irritating your potential customer is not the best way of increasing sales.Couldn't agree more. So many advertisers seem to be totally ignorant of what constitutes a good advert. I never cease to be surprised at how many advertisers on Classic FM radio include aggressive irritating pop in their adverts. They don't appear to have the common sense to appreciate the fact that the people listening to this radio station are hardly likely to appreciate these adverts. I do not listen to pop stations, but I would hardly expect advertisers on such stations to advertise to the background music of a Mahler symphony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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