Pop Up Ads

cstdenis · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject:

Fac should not have any popup ads. Its possable one of the advertisers is sneeking some in but more likely either
a. You went to another site that spawned a hidden window that spawns othere popups.
or
b. You have adware on your computer.

anyone else having this problem?
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IzumeSuenix · Very bored Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 152

Yar. Thought only once awhile I would get one, but my firefox blocked them so I don't get them, I rarely see them on the site pop-up, so its not a big deal to me Smile

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I'm getting pop-ups as well every few pages
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Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:38 am Post subject:

I haven't gotten any pop-ups on FAC in months.

[quote]I'm getting pop-ups as well every few pages[/quote]
Make a note of which pages they are/were.
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Brianhjh · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:00 am Post subject:

I haven't seen any,

I'm pretty sure it is either adware or Denis' secret conspiracy to squeeze every last dime out of website advertising as possible.

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Stratadrake · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject:

Apparently the popups are summoned by a few of the banners... somehow.... (just saw one on IE). The particular popup was loaded in from ad.yieldmanager.com, but unfortunately I didn't note which pop-up it was (one of the zedo ads, but, yeah, that doesn't help) .

I'd wager that IE has a hidden [b]"[/b]feature[b]"[/b] that allows pop-ups to occur without relying on Javascript functions (since it doesn't occur on FF, only IE).
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cstdenis · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject:

That is quite odd since yieldmanager is Right Media which is not currently an active advertiser on FAC (their rates dropped too low)

Anyway, I'm working on completely redoing the advertising system on FAC and selling some ad space on my own again so if there is some reminant left of Right Media it should be gone soon.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject:

All I can say is that when the pop-up appeared, I'm pretty sure IE's title bar read something like "ads.yieldmanager.com" ... I searched the page's HTML for references to it, but no luck.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:31 am Post subject:

One of the popups appeared in Firefox. The source domain for them is yieldmanager.com -- which is also the source domain for a few of the animated-GIF banner ads.
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cstdenis · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

I haven't used yieldmanager in like half a month, but mamma media was giving out popups. I emailed them and there should be no more from them.

let me know if you get any more.
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cstdenis · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

Is the popup one of the first 10 ads you see?
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Stratadrake · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject:

Since the banner ads are stored in iframes linked in from offsite, the offsite server must be the one generating the popups... because the FAC server sure as heck isn't doing any automatic javascript:windowOpen calls....
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cstdenis · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

No, none of them come from FAC.

I'll bring it up when I contact impressionup later today.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject:

[quote]No, none of them come from FAC.[/quote]
Exactly, they're likely generated by the contents [i]of[/i] the banner ad iframes (which are stored on the adserver, not FAC server).

I can't be the only one who knows how frames/iframes work Wink

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Stratadrake · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:13 am Post subject:

/me loves the "Web Page (complete)" option -- successfully captured a pop-up ad on disk.

Check out the zipfile for a pop-up ad in captivity! Species: [i]Poppuppi Annoyus[/i]

But damn it, I was right. I didn't want to be proven right! Grr!

:P

FAC page (saved as "temp_popup.html") contains an iframe for banner ads
- Banner iframe links to "ff2.htm"
- ff2.htm contains a javascript reference to "pops6.js"
- pops6.js is what actually calls the popups
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cstdenis · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject:

Thats Zendo which is impressionup.

I've emailed them about it......They didn't respond.
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Brianhjh · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:08 am Post subject:

[quote="cstdenis (Cstdenis)"] I've emailed them about it......They didn't respond. [/quote]
Burn 'em at the stake
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cstdenis · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:50 am Post subject:

If I dont hear from them on monday I'll consider just taking them off.

In the mean time use googlebar or firefox
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cstdenis · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject:

I contacted the advertiser who claims to be looking into it.

she was supposed to contact me friday....didn't.

Not email from her today either Sad

.

I need to find more of my own ad clients.
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IzumeSuenix · Very bored Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 152

I Been getting those stupid Pop-up advertisements. :wacko: On is a coca-cola vs Pepsi one....... Sad