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    Posted: August 25 2008 at 18:53

And by clicking it you've just downloaded gigabytes of spyware into your HD LOL

It's not really about having to download all the add-ons and plug-ins to prevent these. I'm lucky enough to not get any of these, probably because I'm not in the US or that i'm using Opera. But I think if they're unwanted here, we shouldn't all have to get add-blockers, but they should be removed... Hmm, all I get is PM spam from 0-posts members at times.
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From what I can tell now, this is not a bug but an authorized deal that PA has instituted.  Since after these ads show up you can click on a link called "skip this ad", otherwise you will go to the correct page after a 15 second countdown.  If you click "skip this ad" you will go right to the link.  Unless someone tells me different, I am assuming this is not a bug.  It is not a pop-up, per se.  The whole screen has the ad.
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Well there not actuallly pop ups. There simply adds that appear when I click any link on the page(even in the forum). For example...if I click to go to the progressive metal sub genre on the main page instead of showing me that page(the genre page) the add appears. Clearly these adds don't appear all the time...but the times it appears is very frequent and are REALLY annoying.. I doubt that its my computer since like I said before I've been getting it in mine and other computers.
 
Will try that Harry. I'll post again in the coming days to see if it works.Thumbs%20Up
 
 
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I have yet to see this pop up. If you have all the nice Firefox add-ons, you shouldn't see anything of the like.
Just download NoScript and Ad Block Plus people, and thou shalt be fine. If you have Ad Block already, JUST ADD the offending images, GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs and whatever to your adblock list, that's all you have to do peopleThumbs%20Up
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Hello guys, please confirm that there is still popup because it's not suppose too.
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Ummm...I got that pop up blocker you mentioned and I still get it. And not only in my computer by in my dad's office computer too.Dead
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I'd love to get in touch with some of my old classmates, if you know what I mean... Nudge nudge, wink wink... Wink Wink

(I mean, obviously, that I'd like to play chess with them.)


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3 is ugly though, so make sure you grab a skin along with it.  

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I am on the latest Firefox 2 but will get the 3 and the adblock.  I certainly would like to fix it for myself, but I would think the admins would want to fix the underlying problem as well.  This certainly can't be good for business.
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Thanks a lot guys. I do use Firefox(way better than IE). Well I'll get it now to stop those annoying adds!!! THANKS!!
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Ummmm, yeah, Harry beat me to it.  

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It's free.  You just have to be using Firefox, which I would recommend you do anyway if you aren't doing so now.  

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Originally posted by burritounit burritounit wrote:

Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

I never have that problem because I'm running Adblock Plus.  


Just curious...where did you get it?Embarrassed


Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Download ze Firefox 3 and ze add ons.

Like me and Rilerdog did.
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Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

I never have that problem because I'm running Adblock Plus.  


Just curious...where did you get it?Embarrassed
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Download ze Firefox 3 and ze add ons.

Like me and Rilerdog did.
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I never have that problem because I'm running Adblock Plus.  

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Great, now Zwinky is doing it.  And add Netflix to the list.
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Maybe it is a U.S. thing.  Do you get the same ads in England as we get here?  Does classmates.com have an English division?   This thing is Evil, with a capital E.  I don't have problems with pop-ups.  I click on a link in PA and it stays in PA, but all you get is the big classmates.com ad.  The site is bogged down tremendously nowadays and this thing does not help.
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I've not seen these at all, perhaps you should get Ad Blocker and/or a pop-up blocker.
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Points: 2551 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2008 at 16:15
I guess I wasn't the only one...I've been getting this annoying stuff for quite some time, but I guess I was to lazy to report anything...and there's also another about netflixDead

Edited by burritounit - August 04 2008 at 16:17
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