I love the TA forums, but the forums themselves are well, extremely irritating. Fighting through the 3+ popups that I get every time I load a new page was bad enough, now it has this crazy anti ad-buster pro crap, a little setup that eliminates anti-popup/anti-cookie programs. Worst part is, it FORCES ME TO TURN ON MY COOKIES, or it wont let me into the forums. I absolutely hate cookies... they track where you go, they hide themselves in a windows file (index.dat) where it becomes IMPOSSABLE to remove them without special software, and they pop up ads even when your computer is completely idle.
This is really getting rediculous. I understand mainting TA requires money. I dont mind putting up with a popup or two and banner ads. But the cookie requirements, and the latest batch of popups ive been getting are downright annoying. One stupid x10 ad that it popups sits and hides in the taskbar for a minute, then popups when you least expect it. Short of Alt+f4, there is no way to close it! If you press the little X on the right of the window, it just minimizes itself and waits a minute to popup again. Another ad opens a blank window in fullscreen mode (press f11 to understand how that works), causing your entire screen to be 100% COVERED in a blank page. Again, Alt+f4 is your only way out.
Please, get rid of this shit. Im not trying to be bitter, I love this board and the community on it, but this is commercialism to the extreme.
Hmmm it hasn't been that fucked here but I hate those popups too...
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Oct-17-2002 08:45
Freefall
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: London, UK
I third this comment.
The pop-ups are damn annoying I hate all forms of advertising. It's not as if any of the TA visitors are actually going to click on the pop-up ffs.
It's all about money obviously, there are other ways of making a site break-even.
With my site I've decided not to give in and put advertising on it, else it just drives visitors away, though as a result I'm paying in excess of £500per month to support the infrastructure.
but if you guys hate them that much, then you fork out for the server bills
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Oct-17-2002 09:44
dj_nomiz
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Brisbane
i only ever received 1 pop up everytime i surf this site, doesn't seem to be that bad
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Oct-17-2002 10:03
Porky
State of Halcyon....
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: GU13
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Originally posted by nrjizer , there is no way to close it! If you press the little X on the right of the window, it just minimizes itself and waits a minute to popup again.
THERE IS A WAY TO CLOSE IT
PRESS CTRL+ALT+DEL
click on Task Manager
click on Applications... choose the url that refused to die and then
click "end task" near the bottom!!
oy!
Pork
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Oct-17-2002 10:07
Blik
The Almighty Blik
Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Rosmalen, Holland
Don't have any pop-ups
PM Swamper about it, he is the only one who can do something about it
Find me 1 credible source that can verify what you say about cookies. Cookies can ONLY be accessed by the SAME domain that created them, hence this issue of 'privacy' is moot. Further, no cookie ever contains vital info - usually nothing more than your userid (aka forums ID) or time of last access/ad displayed/page viewed. Cookies don't spawn popups either, that's dependent on the web pages currently open in your browser. The reason I block the cookies too is so that people don't get a popup every time after they disable their popup blocker.
Find out what cookies really do and then you'll understand their purpose - the reason you end up seeing popups on EVERY page is because you have cookies off and cookies are the way to check to see the last time you saw a popup and whether or not to show you one again - no cookie, means, popup for you every time.
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Originally posted by Freefall
With my site I've decided not to give in and put advertising on it, else it just drives visitors away, though as a result I'm paying in excess of £500per month to support the infrastructure.
That's way too much, PM me with what that gets you and I'll find another host for you.
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Oct-17-2002 13:36
Sand Leaper
Tension hunter
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway
Another easy way to close it is to right click on the pop up in the taskbar and then select close.
It helps with those pop-up ads. You'll see them once, then you just select the popups you no longer want to see from the list of websites shown, and it zaps them off for you the next time you enter the website. Of course, you have to do this everytime a new popup ad comes in, but it works nicely for awhile.
Hope that helps.
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Oct-17-2002 14:56
verminator
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Registered: Oct 2000
Location:
hmm
i get one small popup once in a while, which is totally ok for me
i dont freak out of one small popup
and it doesnt even lead to something else when you close it.. lol
can't really see the harm in this
and as other peeps have mentioned so far, its only to right click and close or push alt-f4
its only a matter of seconds, and i dont really think that any of the users here on the forum are so important that only a few seconds is a matter of millions of $$$$
Oct-17-2002 15:02
DJ Mikey Mike
Your mum's face
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: I'm at your mums'
i only get 1 pop up and thats when the first time i load of ta.com/forum after my comp has been idle for a few hours or so. It must be a problem at your end or summing....
Another ad opens a blank window in fullscreen mode (press f11 to understand how that works), causing your entire screen to be 100% COVERED in a blank page. Again, Alt+f4 is your only way out. 
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