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Back Room => Updates and Upsets => Topic started by: Rick on Jul 09, 2004, 19:02:00

Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Rick on Jul 09, 2004, 19:02:00
If it appears that you are getting pop-ups delivered to you when you visit the OAS website, then please could you put a note here saying:

1) Which browser you are using.
2) What the pop-up is advertising.
3) If you can figure it out, where the pop-up came from.

I have my suspiscions (thanks Paul) but I'd like to hear more...
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Mike on Jul 09, 2004, 20:47:00
I use both IE and FireFox and have never had a pop-up.
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: JohnP on Jul 09, 2004, 22:35:00
I use IE6 & used to get them every time I'd visit - I think they were from a 'surveilance TV camera company' I've now installed a google Add-on bar to my browser & it blocks all the pop-up's - Works great. A few weeks ago I had a major problem with a pop-up from 680180.net which was mobile phone related - Every time I would surf it would pop-up every 30secs or so - It was doing my head in... After much searching the net I managed to find a fix - took me about a week to sort it out.

Cheers,  John
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Rick on Jul 13, 2004, 23:47:00
Paul reports pop-ups from IE and lack of pop-ups from Opera. Source appears to be www dot bravenet dot com.
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Rick on Jul 14, 2004, 19:22:00
Dunno whether BHODemon would be of any help...

http://pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,23611,00.asp
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Rick on Jul 20, 2004, 20:04:00
I'm experimenting with an alternative counter hosted on my home system. Please report any problems you have with it.
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Whitters on Jul 21, 2004, 03:26:00
Nice one.
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Rick on Jul 23, 2004, 23:35:00
One of the side-effects of this, because I've added to counter script to most of the html pages on the site, is that I'm seeing the referring information from some of the search engines. I offer this string for consideration:

astrophotography scotch

[ This Message was edited by: Rick on 2004-07-23 15:35 ]
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Ian on Jul 26, 2004, 17:16:00
well during those long exposures in winter, there is nothing like a warming dram.

I doubt I'd build a website to say so though...
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Mike on Jul 27, 2004, 02:12:00
My guess is something to do with making a Scotch Mount.
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Ian on Jul 27, 2004, 17:54:00
or improving the tracking of an etx using nothing but scotch tape?
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Whitters on Jul 28, 2004, 02:43:00
Or they just heard about DSC. :wink:
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Mike on Jul 29, 2004, 21:16:00
Tried to access the OAS page from work today and got my first ever pop-up !!! Took me to a ringtone site - http://64.237.46.147/sms-universe/sms-uk-fuel.html
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Rick on Jul 29, 2004, 21:29:00
From the main index page, presumably. What browser?
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Mike on Jul 30, 2004, 00:32:00
Yes - and it is IE version 6.
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Rick on Aug 16, 2004, 08:23:00
You may have noticed the Bravenet counter has gone. Hopefully that'll fix the pop-up issue.
Title: Pop-ups from the OAS website?
Post by: Rick on Sep 14, 2004, 19:00:00
...and guess what...

The latest spam^Wnewsletter from Bravenet has a headline...

"WE'VE REMOVED POP-UPS FROM COUNTERS!"

Too late, guys. We already jumped. :wink:
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