I am with you on the hatred of pop ups, but I hate even more the kind that pops up, and you can't make go away until the idiotic ad has run its course.

For those reasons you might as well boycott the entire internet. Try this program, pop up stopper, http://panicware.com/product_psfree.html I use it and it has stopped at least 99% of popups. And it is free

ooo boy, I'm with ya on that one just me. But: Paul, I don't have any problems with most pop-ups due to a fairly good anti-pop-up-program.

Try the Maxthon browser, I've used it for a long time and it's builtin blocker works fime on Drudge and just about every other site I've ever been to. It's free, tabbed, and has never given me a bit of trouble. Best of all there aren't enough people using it yet for anyone to try to hack it.

http://www.maxthon.com/

This problem is easily defeated using the
correct setting on common browsers.

Netscape 7.2 (and later) will block those pop ups.
I suspect many, if not most, other browsers
are capable of it, too.

I heard a rumor that the Maxthon browser blocks popups on porn sites too. Of course I wouldn't know if that's true or not.

There are no pop-ups on Drudge.

IF YOU USE MOZILLA FIREFOX.

I assume y'all are still using sliderules.

Proxomitron

Out of the box or tweak it to death - best and most versatile filtering proxy you'll find. Techies can write their own rules, borrow others, or run it as it's set by default. Can be routed to run through other proxies too so nothing in your network path should be disturbed. I've been using it for years to filter. Lightweight, too.

No popups from anyone unless I allow them. Needless to say, I've not seen an ad from Drudge for years. I always wondered how he made money. :)

I think I will join you on that boycott. I thought I just had my pop-up blocker set wrong when i started getting multiple ads at one time. The other thing I hate is if I have Drudge in a tab or another window and it refreshes, it shifts focus to that window/ tab and a new set of pop-ups appear.

PithHelmet will knock out almost anything in Safari. even those Flash ads that are the only way to get a pop-up on Drudge for Safari.

oh, and for you FireFox apologetics, I've gotten plenty of pop-unders from both Flash scripts and cleverly written php code.

A better question, why do pop-ups continue to exist? Does anyone know anyone who has ever bought anything based on a pop-up? Companies would stop paying for them if idiots weren't buying the crap they advertise.

If you use No-Script (a javascript blocking plugin for Firefox) you will get 0 popups from Drudge.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=722

I believe some of the Drudge ads use Flash to launch popups. I keep Flash disabled when I'm not specifically visiting a Flash site, and between that and Safari's pop up blocker, I haven't seen a Drudge pop up yet.

His pop ups have annoyed me for quite some time.

Most people I know shun Drudge because he's almost always dishonest, often inaccurate, and occasionally a plagiarist.

His part in the swift boating of Ms. Sheehan is a perfect example.

But for you it's all about the pop-ups.

Odd set of priorities ya got there...

Funny... I just spent an hour sending e-mail to several advertisers using pop-ups on Drudge telling them that every pop-up I see from them will postpone my purchasing/using their services by a week. A couple of them have already lost my business well into the next century.

Tell the advertisers that they're pissing off those they're seeking to attract. I suspect that if they get enough of those messages they'll desist. Successful business does not generally follow stupidity.

Try replacing your hosts file with info contained here: http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html -- even if you get a popup (which I rarely do anymore), the content becomes mostly blocked.

Most people I know shun Drudge because he's almost always dishonest, often inaccurate, and occasionally a plagiarist.

Translation: Drudge posts news items that make me mad because they puncture holes in my little lefty cocoon. Therefore, I will make myself feel better by slandering him so I won't have to deal with the facts. This is what I learned at the feel of my masters James Carville and Paul Begala.

I get pop ups on Lucianne too, the kind my adware program has to remove.

Paul, I would have thought that Mac browsers would have had good pop-up stopping capability. Since I live in the Windows world, I am unable to give you any advice, so all I can do is tell you that I use Mozilla (or IE on occasion) and between that and the pop-up blocker in Norton Internet Security 2003, my internet browsing is pretty much free of pop-ups, indcluding the drudgereport.com.

I didn't even know Drudge has popups - just use a good web browser like FireFox and you will never see any popups (or ads for that matter) again.

RM

RE: Don Myers' post (August 15, 2005 09:59 AM)

Most people I know shun Drudge because he's almost always dishonest, often inaccurate, and occasionally a plagiarist.

Um, the overwhelming majority (probably greater than 99.9%) of material on Drudge's site is links to stories produced by other media and not original content. If you are concerned about inaccurate, dishonest, and plagiarized material, blame the MSM since it's that material that typically headlines.

Amen, brother!

We posted on this a couple of weeks ago for the same reasons you list: http://moltenthought.blogspot.com/2005/08/down-with-drudge.html

I honestly hope this will ignite a wider war.

I think Matt Drudge is the father of the blogosphere, but the popup proliferation smacks of pure greed and distaste for one's audience.

I use the AdBlock extension to Firefox. It blocks not just images and embedded banners but can also block flash animations and iframes. Drudge comes up clean for me. Adblock is free and works well with Firefox and Mozilla and doesn't require another process running in the background. Just look for it at any of the extension sites for Firefox...

Um to all who say Firefox blocks Drudge's popup...

It is abundantly clear that you neither go to Drudge nor read the extended version of this story. I run both Firefox and Safari. Drudge uses Flash pop up which today get around their blockers. Read the extended version of this story.

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And Don Meyers said:

>Most people I know shun Drudge because he's almost always dishonest, often inaccurate, and occasionally a plagiarist.

Of course you and your pals feel that way. You're moonbats. see also

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To those of you who told me how to extend the pop up ability of Firefox/Safari. Thanks, I appreciate... and if I were not such an odd duck, I'd take your advice. But....

I don't want to get into an arms race with Drudge. If he wants to cram ads down my throat, fine, I'll go elsewhere. No biggie.

Just use an RSS feed. That gets you the stories but not the popups.

Kurt, can you point me to an RSS feed for Drudge?

Paul and other Firefox users,

You do not need any extensions or special pop-up blockers to stop the horrible flash pop-ups. There is a setting in Firefox to fix the problem.

Stopping pop-ups from plug-ins

As for the boycott against sites that use these tatics, I am right there with you Paul.

I've emailed Drudge about his pop-up ads.

I was infected with that hideous Aurora pop-up malware and I'm very suspicious that I got it from Drudge's site.

It's long overdue for some tough federal legislation on this problem. This isn't like junk mail you can sort in the garbage. This crap can ruin your computer.

I hate to say it, but somebody has to. My PC with Internet Explorer blocks the Drudge popups just fine.

Firefox + Adblock = WIN.

You might as well be surfing via AOHell if you use anything else.

Period.

Icing on the cake?

With Adblock you can get rid of the stupid pics he, or any other website puts up too.

Bill Cook I have a completely up to date XP machine that just told me otherwise.

I use Firefox and still get pop up's from Drudge. I don't get them at any other sites. I've check my settings and they seem to be correct.

Penny said, "It's long overdue for some tough federal legislation on this problem"

This is exactly what shouldn't be done. Why is that always the first thought of people - if something isn't working the way I think it should then we need to get the government to make them do it my way.

If you don't like the popups - then don't go to the web site. Just what Paul is doing.

But why in the hell would you invite or demand federal intervention for what amounts to a pretty piddly little issue?

This isn't a life altering, life threatening problem. Drudge can throw up thousands of pop ups and your life and my life will still go on - relatively unharmed.

So why such outrage that you would demand the government come in and regulate web site content in the form of ads?

My XP Box is kept Pop-up and Banner free for months with a well updated HOSTS file.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

I wonder if a case can't already be made that this is "unauthorized access." When users pick browsers FOR the ability to block popups, and explicitly enable the blocking (and/or add additional third-party applications or plug-ins) and the advertisers develop code specifically to get around those preventative measures and execute unauthorized code on the users' computers...

Well, put me on that jury and I know which way I vote.

Hmmmm.

Get a software firewall.

If you're on a commercial broadband line, such as DSL or cablemodem, then you **must** have a software firewall at the minimum.

Frankly I use Kerio, http://www.kerio.com, because it also includes popup blockers, javascript blockers and serves as a pretty good firewall. Frankly I think I posted this before on this very blog.

If you're getting popups or malicious adware, then use a combination of Mozilla Firefox + Kerio Personal Firewall. The Kerio firewall inspects each webpage for links to websites on the exclusion list and will modify the page automatically to block those links. The firewall also inspects the webpage for any troublesome javascript calls and eliminates those blocks of javascript codes completely.

You can also configure the firewall software to allow specific websites so their popups will work, if you really want them to. Or if you're really lazy, like I am, there's a hot-key to allow popups and/or you can disable popup-blocking by uncheckmarking "Disable popups".

Frankly I don't know why anyone wouldn't use a software firewall.

To download:
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html

An important bit: "Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use. For corporate use please see the pricing and licensing policies section."

Frankly I prefer the paid version, but if you're not up for that, then try the free version.

But get a software firewall.