Knock Down Your Pop Ups With Blockers

Pop ups are probably the most annoying thing about the internet that I can think of. I am quickly coming to the conclusion that pop ups are the bane of my existence, and I am going to be tortured by them in one for or other for the rest of my life. I was pretty excited about the idea of pop up blockers when they first started appearing and downloaded every one I could find. I’ve lost track of how many pop up blockers I’ve got running on my computer now.

Pop up blockers are a standard today with any kind of internet browsing software and many search engine websites like Google have their own as well. Pop up blockers seem to do a pretty good job and I only rarely see a pop up these days. Just for fun I tried disabling all of my pop up blockers the other day and it was so ridiculous I couldn’t even use the internet.

Why anyone in their right mind would actually think even for a second that a pop up add would compel someone to buy their product is beyond me. You’d think the rise of pop up blockers would be a hint. Everyone I know or have ever talked to about the subject falls into a range between being mildly annoyed to being set off into a blind rage by pop ups. I’m definitely in the blind rage end of the spectrum. I make it a personal note never to do any business with anyone that advertises by way of pop ups. Needless to say I have a lot of personal notes!

With plenty of pop up blockers running and few pop ups on my PC these days, I’m trying to move past the issue, but I’m now finding a new way these pop ups are coming back to haunt me. Many of the pop up blockers I’m running seem to be freezing up my computer. I’m not exactly sure why, but when I’m browsing the internet it’ll often just freeze up when I click on a link. The little pop up blocker icon appears and then everything comes to a halt, forcing me to Alt-Ctrl-Del my way out of it. Friends I have that know a lot more about these kinds of things than me, have informed me that this is likely because many sites work by the same mechanisms pop ups do. Your pop up blocker will cause everything to crash if you visit a site like this.

Fortunately, pop up blockers are easily deactivated and reactivated, and you can usually tell which ones are causing the problems. Still, just when I thought pop ups were a thing of the past, their nuisance continues to haunt me.

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