Do popups drive you nuts?

@TriciaW (2441)
United States
June 1, 2007 3:00pm CST
Popups every where. I have a popup blocker, spam guard and anti virus all working yet they come. I swear they were designed just to drive us nuts. I mean how many of those popups do people really ever click on at least on purpose? Do you think that they are worth the advertising? Heck I had one the other day that was of a woman with hardly anything on and my daughter was standing beside me and gasped mom what are you looking at? I had to laugh just because it shocked me as much as it did her. I just really hate popups Do they drive you nuts?
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10 responses
@BrainTeaser (1428)
• Pakistan
1 Jun 07
Some time ago they really gave me hell of a time and were really annoying popping up at a rapid speed i open one explorer and there it go 2-3 pop-ups with it , but now as i am using firefox the pop-ups not just only reduced but in a way closed down for good once and for all.
5 May 08
Hail Hitler
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
2 Jun 07
Oh my goodness. They make me want to bite nails! Like you, I have more defenses on here than the military has for our country and I still get them. The 'pop unders' are what I am mostly getting now. Oh, and how about that one where you leave the page and it turns into a dialoge box 'Jenny says' or something. Then you previous page is gone for good and you have to open a new window! Yeah, I've lost my religion a few times.
• India
2 Jun 07
Yes precisely,these popups are quite irritating and annoying. when i m in middle of game these popups appear and drive me crazy especially those internet notion security virus.
• Philippines
2 Jun 07
I doesn't drive me nuts. Actually, some pop-ups were made for the sake of gaining online cash money. They earn much if they use pop-ups. Anyway, other popup blocker isn't effective.
@msnbtech (283)
• India
5 May 08
ya pop ups are really irritating mm we should think of some real working method to eradicate these pop ups eventhoug all our anti virus pop up blockers are there thes pop ups still iritate us
@ArsonCuff (3114)
• United States
2 Jun 07
sounds more like a virus if you have pop up blockers and odd random sites such as that popping up. I use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer because of such things
@meljessxena (2315)
• Australia
2 Jun 07
yeah i hate pop ups but with the blocker on it, and the antivirus on the computer it seems much better like i only have the od ones poping up (dont want to speak to soon lol) yeah they all have catches to them.
• Pakistan
1 Jun 07
I have mozilla fire fox as my web browser and i have never noticed any popup since i am using fire fox yeah they are to make you angry and frustrated and i think it is not a good marketing techniques as ever one think of pop up as negative so i think this should be ended and never used in good web pages/sites.
• United States
2 Jun 07
along with some of the other users, I use firefox as well. since then I have not had any problems with pop-ups and will never use IE again.. I would also suggest trying adaware (its free) to clean your system of any spyware that typically causes pop-ups.