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Too MUCH!!
BillieTheBot
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I hate using the net Now! Does anyone else agree that there is far to much pornography, advertisements etc, on the net? nearly everything you click on brings up a pop up with some advertisement for something! I really hate it NOW! :mad:
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I started using the Net in '95, and there has been a huge difference in the content. I'm not saying its a good or bad thing, but it is very noticable.
Most noticable is the number of sites that try and cookie me for no good or given reason, I think doubleclick has to be the most annoying.
On the plus side people's netequette has become much better in general, and the communities have grown in many ways.
All in all i'm hapy with the development of the internet. Sorry.
And yes, i occasionally still use lynx, mainly cos it looks like i'm working
Changing browser may not necessarily cut down on pop-ups, many sites also incoperate spy-ware into the pages which load keys into your Windows registry and make advertisements pop-up from time to time.
You can download a program called 'Ad-Aware' and run it doing a full sweep of your registry to delete these keys, cutting you down on some of the pop-ups...
You can also download the various 'pop-up' stoppers which kill windows as they open, hense stopping you seeing many of those annoying pop-ups.
Cookies are becoming more common in websites as they move from being single stand-alone pages to ASP/XML and PHP database type pages, these are to try and maximise viewing for the person by remembering pages/links previously visited and remembering posts previously answered...
A good example of a Cookie site would be this website and the discussion forum
You also get very little advertising, unless they're advertising as plaintext.
If you do then effectivly every web site you visit can have access to your email address, which they can then either spam themselves, or sell to advertising and marketing lists for other people to spam.
(BTW i don't know if this will work. If its really a problem switch to Opera instead of IE)
If you go to the tools menu in IE and then to 'internet option' a window will appear.
then go to the programs tab. It will have a pull down menu for your email client (outlook, OE and hotmail).
Change it to whichever one you DONT use.
Like I say, this may or may not help.
Remember that even if you do this now a load of sites will have your address to spam already.