What's up with the new pop-ups?

[lil crusader]

You guys know I love this place, but for the first time ever I've got a beef with this forum....namely the brand new worse than annoying pop-up ad that now greets me everytime I log in here. I've got a pop-up blocker, but this is one that manages to get around it.

I know GPF has some kind of pop-up too, but the only way I know is because my pop-up blocker goes off and I've never seen it (which is just the way I want it). I can't do anything to stop the one you have here, though, and it really is kind of disappointing for such a great place to resort to what IMO is the absolute worst form of online advertising ever invented.

[Meroveus]

Weird... I'm not getting it. Guess my browser blocks it.

[Rob]

We are now serving Right Media ads instead of Google Search boxes to US visitors... I thought I disabled pop-ups though.

Evidently I don't get them because I am non-US. Do you just get one popup for the whole duration of your GPTBoycott visit, or one on every page?

Rob

[Tmarie99]

Yesterday I would get two pop ups (AOL and Smiley central or something like that) when I first got here, but only then. I'd close them and get nothing else unless I left and came back.
This morning I got none.

[Rob]

I'm glad the popups have stopped :)
I'm not a fan of popups unless absolutely necessary.

Rob

[Rob]

Just realised how horrible that looked with the extra banner...

OK I've changed it so the Google Search box is back.. and the RightMedia ad is now on high rotation within the normal banner rotator... so it should all fit on a 1024 x 768 screen.

Rob :)

[lil crusader]

Yeay!!!!! It's gone!!!!!

Thanks for making the changes Rob....the site does look much better again.