Too MUCH!!

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2002

  Don't like it? try changing browser. Lynx doesn't show that much porn or advertising... And boy is it fast.
  
  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

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2002

  Pop-ups are a form of making money for websites, if you click on the pop-up then the website owner might make $0.05 a click etc.
  
  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

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2002

  If you use lynx, you wont get pop-ups. trust me.
  You also get very little advertising, unless they're advertising as plaintext.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2002

  Personally, I think you will not get hounded by porn pop-ups unless you go to certain sites. Obviously porn sites and warez sites will guarantee that your fragile little mind will be warped with the likes of chicks with dicks etc. it's just a case of watching where you go if you are easily offended and not signing up for everything that is being offered to you. I can honestly say that I have never received any porn related emails. How can you say you hate the internet? Thats blasphemy! Ok, so I spend way too much time on it and need my mouse surgically removed from my hand, but I don't think it is any worse than it ever was.

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2002

  well some dickhead has signed me up to virtually everything going on the net. Each day i get 10 emails just for porn, insurance, loans and all sorts. :mad:

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  Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

  July 2002

  WHowhere : do you use IE? And Outlook or Outlook express or hotmail?
  
  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.

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