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How do I convince our marketing department that pop-ups are a bad idea?

hot soup girl — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:04:44 -0800

The marketing department wants to put a pop-up on our company website to ask people how they found their way there. I think this will alienate users. Can you point me towards any evidence, research, or articles that suggest this is the case?

Yahoo Messenger pop-ups?

kapec — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:46:14 -0800

What are the implications of and best response to unsolicited Yahoo Messenger pop-up messages? I get pop-up messages from Yahoo Messenger instant messaging service (or was it Hotmail?) asking for permission for others to see me online, to be
"visible" while I am online. How do these people get my contact information. Would I in any way compromise my security if I allow them to do this? What
sort of contact does it permit and how could I find out more about these people and their contacts before I reply (like they seem to be doing and what do they know about me??)

Firefox Ads & Pop-Ups

trinarian — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:59:17 -0800

I love Firefox like the next guy, but I think it's popularity has killed off its best feature: ad/pop-up blocking. How do I make all the pop-ups stop? I've installed AdBlocker, added the correct lines of code from this post, run AdAware.... still, I get pop-ups. Same thing on my brand new laptop; within two days of having Firefox I was getting pop-ups.