[WEB4LIB] Re: Free Britannica Going Away

[Tom Edelblute]

Disabling Pop-up windows is fine until you get into situation where you
have vendors doing authentication for you.  For example, Anaheim just
set things up where Facts-on-File will recognize the range of patron
barcodes we use for remote authentication.  You go into their web-site
with the appropriate page on the end for Anaheim, and a pop-up window
appears asking for the patron barcode number.  If they put in a
recognized entry, they get to move on.

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Tom Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library   phone: (714) 765-1759
500 West Broadway        fax:   (714) 765-1730
Anaheim CA 92805         e-mail: thomas at anaheim.lib.ca.us

Tony Barry wrote:
> 
> At 12:16 PM -0800 15/3/01, morganj at iupui.edu wrote:
> >The problem is the obtrusive nature of online ads.  With popup windows,
> >the ads are much more aggresive than in print media.  In print I can skip
> >whole pages of ads if I want; online ads are always either on the page I'm
> >viewing or in a popup window I have to close.  And of course there are the
> >techniques that make closing windows difficult, and ads that mislead you
> >into thinking they are for some other service you want.  Until we have
> >some standards for ethical online advertising, consumers will see them as
> >pollution.
> 
> Use a browser that disables them. I do.
> 
> Tony
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