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Annoying pop up

Started by Latitude Adjustment , Apr 07 2006 07:22 AM

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#1 Latitude Adjustment

I spend too much time on line

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Posted 07 April 2006 - 07:22 AM

Can we get rid of that pop-up trying to redirect me to another site?

I, Latitude Adjustment (insert log in name), do hereby swear, (politely), that I shall not hold SingleDivers, (SD), nor any SD poster, (real or imagined), liable, nor shall I seek legal restitution, (real or imagined), for any perceived, (real or imagined), offenses I may incur, (or Incurrrrrrrrrr on talk like a pirate day), that may or may not be posted on this or any SCUBA related board, (real or imagined), by anyone, (real or imagined), anywhere, (real or imagined). Further, I void any right to privacy, (real or imagined), as it may, or may not relate to any posting, (real or imagined), about me, to me, for me, because of me, all about me, my dog, my cat, my bird, my monkey, my family, (real or imagined), my friends, (real or imagined), or my world, (real or imagined).

By all that is wet, I do hereby swear, (politely), and attest, upon pain of never diving again, (real or imagined), that I understand and affirm, that I agree to the above.

_________________________________________(log in name signature)
Signed and Dated

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#2 grock

Getting started

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Logged Dives:lost count at 300...

Posted 07 April 2006 - 07:30 AM

Can we get rid of that pop-up trying to redirect me to another site?

Does it ask for a user name and password?
And is the site topscubasites.com?

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#3 Capn Jack

I spend too much time on line

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Cert Level:YMCA in 65, dove till 79, returned in 2002... now will work for air and/or beer as a DM
Logged Dives:not enough

Posted 07 April 2006 - 07:31 AM

Can we get rid of that pop-up trying to redirect me to another site?

Does it ask for a user name and password?
And is the site topscubasites.com?

Yes - I sent a PM to Tolly too.

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#4 Dennis

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Location:Williamsburg, VA and Sebastian, FL
Gender:Male
Cert Level:AOW, Open Water II, & Nitrox
Logged Dives:200+

Posted 07 April 2006 - 07:38 AM

Yes, that stupid thing just started showing up today. I will probably quit coming to SD if it keeps showing up. Someone needs to take the Top Scuba Sites link off the board.

DSSW,
Dennis
"Suppose you were an idiot ... And suppose you were a member of Congress ... But I repeat myself." --Mark Twain

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#5 Basslet

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Location:southeastern PA
Gender:Female
Cert Level:OW
Logged Dives:150

Posted 07 April 2006 - 07:41 AM

Crap. That thing is annoying.

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#6 mantarraya

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Location:Galveston, TX
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Cert Level:AOW / Nitrox
Logged Dives:>100

Posted 07 April 2006 - 07:50 AM

Can we get rid of that pop-up trying to redirect me to another site?

It shows up on the zd site, too.

Back after a long absence - whew, too busy at work!

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#7 blacklatexozdiver

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Logged Dives:16 (pretty hard to dive where there's no water...)

Posted 07 April 2006 - 08:06 AM

Yep - it's a real PITA :cool2:

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein

SD's Aussie Connection.

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#8 Guest_PlatypusMan_*

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Posted 07 April 2006 - 08:12 AM

Can we get rid of that pop-up trying to redirect me to another site?

I'm wondering if they changed the banner coding at the top of the SD site page. Since the annoying pop-up started, the TopScubaSites banner no longer displays properly.

It IS annoying, in that each time I change the screen, the ^&%#(* pop-up comes on and has to be gotten rid of. Totally destroys my enjoyment of the SD experience. I liken it to blowing a bugle while at the height of a passionate interlude. Kills the mood (among other things).

Platypusman

Edited by PlatypusMan, 07 April 2006 - 08:13 AM.

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#9 MNJoe

"Charlie"

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Location:SE Minnesota
Gender:Male
Cert Level:AOW, Nitrox
Logged Dives:450

Posted 07 April 2006 - 08:50 AM

It must go!!

"just your average Joe from Minnesota, also known as Keith"

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#10 Tolly

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Posted 07 April 2006 - 09:18 AM

And it's gone.

** Fixed the justification issue was well. **

SingleDivers can help you plan your personal or family dive trips! Send us an e-mail: SD Travel

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#11 blacklatexozdiver

Everyone knows me

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Location:Mount Barker, Western Australia
Gender:Male
Board Status:-
Cert Level:OW, Drysuit, Underwater Naturalist
Logged Dives:16 (pretty hard to dive where there's no water...)

Posted 07 April 2006 - 09:42 AM

Onya Tolly! You're a champion! :cool2:

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein

SD's Aussie Connection.

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#12 Desert_Diver

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Location:Dallas, TX
Gender:Male
Cert Level:PADI AOW, TDI Nitrox (does it really matter to you??)
Logged Dives:130 something

Posted 07 April 2006 - 08:41 PM

Firefox is a (free) decent browser that allows you to block unwanted pop-ups. Microsoft specifically does NOT want you to block 'em, 'cos they're a commercial company as well as the folks that throw a gazillion pop-ups at you. I've tried several browsers, and Firefox (on the Windows platform) does a good job of rendering pages that were designed *by* Microsoft tools *for* Microsoft IE. Most others will gag on some of the non-standard MS code, including my old favorite, Opera.

If you use Firefox in conjunction with an ad filter, you don't see a lot of the worthless drivel out there on the 'net. I run Privoxy for a filter now, and I can eliminate a lot of ad clutter on sites I regularly visit. It almost makes using The Weather Channel page worthwhile, again. Just right click on an ad to find it's origin, and add that entire domain into the 'Site-specific block patterns' section of Privoxy's 'default actions' file, and they're *gone*. All the 'sponsored' adds from pagead2.googlesyndication.com are eliminated by adding googlesyndication.com/ to the block list, and it nails a lot of javascript advertising. If you get really annoyed, you can delve into the source code of a webpage, and block specific javascript ads from that site just by adding in the path to the garbage script. My block list is getting longer every week.

FYI, I logged in here earlier and didn't see the pop-up.

It's amazing what the proper tools can do.

Just a suggestion....

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#13 Latitude Adjustment

I spend too much time on line

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Location:Work in and live near Lakehurst, NJ
Gender:Male
Cert Level:EanX
Logged Dives:600+

Posted 08 April 2006 - 06:56 AM

MS does allow you to block pop ups by site but I've always allowed them on SD because of the PM's.

I, Latitude Adjustment (insert log in name), do hereby swear, (politely), that I shall not hold SingleDivers, (SD), nor any SD poster, (real or imagined), liable, nor shall I seek legal restitution, (real or imagined), for any perceived, (real or imagined), offenses I may incur, (or Incurrrrrrrrrr on talk like a pirate day), that may or may not be posted on this or any SCUBA related board, (real or imagined), by anyone, (real or imagined), anywhere, (real or imagined). Further, I void any right to privacy, (real or imagined), as it may, or may not relate to any posting, (real or imagined), about me, to me, for me, because of me, all about me, my dog, my cat, my bird, my monkey, my family, (real or imagined), my friends, (real or imagined), or my world, (real or imagined).

By all that is wet, I do hereby swear, (politely), and attest, upon pain of never diving again, (real or imagined), that I understand and affirm, that I agree to the above.

_________________________________________(log in name signature)
Signed and Dated

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#14 Basslet

I spend too much time on line

Member
1,463 posts

Location:southeastern PA
Gender:Female
Cert Level:OW
Logged Dives:150

Posted 08 April 2006 - 09:19 AM

Firefox is a (free) decent browser that allows you to block unwanted pop-ups. Microsoft specifically does NOT want you to block 'em, 'cos they're a commercial company as well as the folks that throw a gazillion pop-ups at you. I've tried several browsers, and Firefox (on the Windows platform) does a good job of rendering pages that were designed *by* Microsoft tools *for* Microsoft IE. Most others will gag on some of the non-standard MS code, including my old favorite, Opera.

If you use Firefox in conjunction with an ad filter, you don't see a lot of the worthless drivel out there on the 'net. I run Privoxy for a filter now, and I can eliminate a lot of ad clutter on sites I regularly visit. It almost makes using The Weather Channel page worthwhile, again. Just right click on an ad to find it's origin, and add that entire domain into the 'Site-specific block patterns' section of Privoxy's 'default actions' file, and they're *gone*. All the 'sponsored' adds from pagead2.googlesyndication.com are eliminated by adding googlesyndication.com/ to the block list, and it nails a lot of javascript advertising. If you get really annoyed, you can delve into the source code of a webpage, and block specific javascript ads from that site just by adding in the path to the garbage script. My block list is getting longer every week.

FYI, I logged in here earlier and didn't see the pop-up. It's amazing what the proper tools can do.

Just a suggestion....

I was using firefox and the pop up still showed up. It wasn't an ad but a login prompt.But now it's gone.