[WEB4LIB] Re: Sleazy sites...it's not just porno anymore.

[Blake Carver]

I see that stupid webcam ad on more than just weather.com lately, the
latimes does it now too.
It really bothers me that big, popular sites like weather and the latimes
have resorted to this kind of crap.
The giant flash ads on news.com are totally unbearable as well.
These ads are getting out of control, I understand they need to make some
money, but it's just getting obscene.
I dread the future of the web if this is what we are seeing now.
You can turn off JavaScript or run webwasher to stop it.

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Blake Carver
LISNews.com
http://www.lisnews.com
Librarian and Information Science News


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Deweese" <chrisd at lcls.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 11:07 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Sleazy sites...it's not just porno anymore.


> Weather.com has been popping up ads a lot on me lately.  Anyone know a way
to stop that?  The ads on weather.com are not as bad as some of the horror
stories I've heard where people say they eventually just have to press the
reset button because so many windows just keep opening.  It is just one of
those annoying HTML tricks that they felt compelled to create :)
>
> Chris Deweese
> Webmaster
> http://www.lcls.lib.il.us/
> Edwardsville IL 62025
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Charles P. Hobbs" <chhobbs at cdrewu.edu>
> Reply-To: chhobbs at cdrewu.edu
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:19:55 -0700 (PDT)
>
> >Ever run into one of those pop-up windows that just won't go away? Even
if
> >you get rid of it....in about two minutes it comes back up?
> >
> >http://clickz.com/article/cz.3860.html
> >--
> >Charles P. Hobbs
> >King Drew Health Science Library
> >http://www.cdrewu.edu/kdhsl
> >
> >
> >
>