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13 responses to “DigiDame: Let’s Do Something About Annoying Pop-Ups”

1. I have tried many “pop-up and ad blockers, and just cant’ seem to get rid of them. I HATE THEM! If you can help we will all be forever indebted! Thanks.

   Reply to Beki

2. I hate the bloody things. Have tried the tool Pop-up blocker and other software that claims to eliminate pop-ups to no avail. Is there anything out there that can stop this darn stuff??

   Reply to Martha Davis

   1. Adblock Plus seems to work better than anything I’ve tried. It’s an extension for Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera – not sure if Microsoft Edge can use it, though I know they’re working on making it compatible with Chrome extensions.

      Reply to Mike Farley

3. Totally agree. I usually leave the site immediately! I’m sure that’s not what the site intended but it’s what I–and apparently others as well–do.

   Reply to Elizabeth Rogers

4. I SO agree with you. I get extremely angry and purposely I never read the ads at all! And, just as you, when I get seriously annoyed with those incredibly intrusive ads (many of them smacked in the middle of an article) I just forget all about the article altogether. I think their money gluttony defeats their own purpose since people just abandon those sites. Another terrible interference is the series of social networks vertically or horizontally placed covering significant parts all around the articles. Nobody on my computer list reads the ads and also abandons reading the articles under them. :o)

   Reply to Adela

5. Can’t stand it … If the sites tell me to turn off add blocker I then them off.
   Only had one article in the Wall street journal , that I was really interested in. had to shut them off but found the same
   article on another site withe out the junk covering the page.

   Reply to Linn

6. I exit web sites that have moving stuff on them — too distracting & annoying. If it’s something I REALLY want to read or see, I tape black construction paper over same.

   You’d think website hosts would get this! After all, we’re not all millennials or teenagers with a seemingly infinite appetite for distraction and wasting time.

   Reply to Julia Sommer

7. Absolutely agree!
   What fustrates me; I clink on a site that I just got interested in. First screen appears and no sooner then my eyes start taking in what they are about or selling, Bam, a pop-up to subscribe. I have NOT had an opportunity to check it out to see if I like it enough. Then to find the ‘close’ or X another ugh. Add to the fustration that it appears to be timed. argggggg Forget it! The interest is killed by the pop-up. Seems like the tactic is counter productive, a marketing blunder.

   Reply to Mayra

8. Beyond annoying and wasting time trying to delete through pop up blockers in the web site don’t work. After deleting all companies more ads show up.

   Reply to maryan

9. I usually just close the article or photos that I was trying to read. Some sites I do not even bother to view anymore. On my National Geographic videos, there is usually a short related ad at the start which I do not mind. It is not interrupting what I want to view.

   Reply to Sandra Truman

10. I agree ! 1

    Reply to Judy

11. I agree – there have been many times I don’t get to read what I want because of interruptions of advertising or what you think you are going to read turns out to be unrelated?!!

    Talk about wasting time for Modern Technology!

    It is too much for my mind.

    Thank you for giving me somewhere/somehow to address something So Stressful.

    Reply to Lucy D.

12. Absolutely! And what’s worse are the obstructive banners that have started arriving on non-mobile versions of news sites, saying, “Please keep our paper in business – turn off your ad blocker” and when you do, the page is so densely covered with self-actuating video clips, flickering images, and sneaky hidden links as to be virtually unusable. I simply can’t read most UK regional newspaper sites these days.

    Reply to Mike Farley