Okay...

[athelind]

...does ANYONE actually respond to these bloody pop-under ads?

What is the point?

I'll click on banner ads now and then, because I know what page they're supporting, and I'm in favor of web advertising that's up-front and fairly innocuous.

Well, okay, pop-unders are at least an attempt to be even more innocuous than a banner, but I want some accountability. I want to know what site sent me there.

Comments

[chrissawyer.livejournal.com]

They are probably finiding out that people don't visit sites that are ghetto enough to have huge pop ups.

[soreth.livejournal.com]

I, uh, haven't seen any pop-unders in so long I can't remember the last time one showed up.

>..>

But even if I saw 'em I wouldn't click 'em.

[richardf8]

Umm . . . yes. Lots of my users. And then I spend 90 minutes cleaning the spyware off their PC's.

[chrissawyer.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Now they just download a spyware onto your oh, so secure windows box, and the pop up's are generated right there on your box. Even if you are not online. :o

[silussa.livejournal.com]

If you see more and more of a type of ad, it only means one thing.

It's working.

5% of those that view a pop-up actually click on it, for instance. *bleh*

[shavastak.livejournal.com]

And considering how many there are of those things, that's enough people to justify more of them. Icky.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Now if there was just a way to penalize the people who do click on the ads....

[athelind.livejournal.com]

That's my solution to spam. Prosecute the people who buy from spammers, just like you prosecute people who purchase services from prostitues.

[darkkdragon.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Imagine the sting operation. The Feds will be putting out their own spam and pop-ups, heh.

{undercover cop}
WANT CHEEP V1/AGR@ N0W HON3Y?!!! SEND MONEY $$ ~address~

{stupid person}
Oooh goody, here is my credit card and my SS#. Cheap drugs, how can I go wrong?

/BUSTED/
-1 less stupid person on the web

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Popups only show on the menu bar below, yes? Typical ads for smileys etc....
-F4 the beggars say I!

[palanth.livejournal.com]

Use Firefox? http://adblock.mozdev.org/

My favorite feature? Control-Shift-F, and all those stupid resource-hogging Flash ads in a page get turned off with a nice simple "Flashblock" banner across them. }:=8>