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kaizoku · Jan 31, 2006

Apologies if this is inappropriate, lock if so, just that i know people on here read 1up.

Does anyone else get that horrible winfix ad which pops up multiple times and makes one of those other pop ups where you have to click ok/cancel/x ?

This is terrible and morally wrong! No advertisers should be forcing this pain on us innocent gamers. totally unethical!

Anyway how do I block this with firefox?

p.s. No slight on 1up, you guys rock.

Dr_Cogent · Jan 31, 2006

This may be OT.

Anyhow,

Tools->Options->Content->Block Popup Windows.

Sho Nuff · Jan 31, 2006

1up also does not work under Internet Explorer.

The next person to say "URR DURRR WHY DUNT U USE FIREFUX HUHUHU" gets my nads teabagging their face.

Hooker · Jan 31, 2006

^ You should be using Opera anyways

Dr_Cogent · Jan 31, 2006

Sho Nuff said:
1up also does not work under Internet Explorer.

The next person to say "URR DURRR WHY DUNT U USE FIREFUX HUHUHU" gets my nads teabagging their face.

How does it not work under IE?

guise · Jan 31, 2006

kaizoku said:
Anyway how do I block this with firefox?

I use Adblock Plus + Adblock Filterset.G Updater and have no problems with any ads

Dr_Cogent · Jan 31, 2006

kaizoku said:
Apologies if this is inappropriate, lock if so, just that i know people on here read 1up.

Does anyone else get that horrible winfix ad which pops up multiple times and makes one of those other pop ups where you have to click ok/cancel/x ?

This is terrible and morally wrong! No advertisers should be forcing this pain on us innocent gamers. totally unethical!

Anyway how do I block this with firefox?

p.s. No slight on 1up, you guys rock.

Question. Do you have Firefox 1.5?

Borys · Jan 31, 2006

Sho Nuff said:
1up also does not work under Internet Explorer.

The next person to say "URR DURRR WHY DUNT U USE FIREFUX HUHUHU" gets my nads teabagging their face.

URR DURRR WHY DUNT U USE FIREFUX HUHUHU

L8MR

E-Nature · Jan 31, 2006

hmm I dont have any popups on 1up.com [firefox]

...... and I don't have any banners either [adblock+ plugin for firefox]

kaizoku · Jan 31, 2006

Yes Firefox 1.5

and block pop up is already enabled. This seems to be a supe duper pop up. Does no one else have this problem? Winfix my ass suckers!

MomoPufflet · Jan 31, 2006

who the fuck uses ie anyway

Dr_Cogent · Jan 31, 2006

kaizoku said:
Yes Firefox 1.5

and block pop up is already enabled. This seems to be a supe duper pop up. Does no one else have this problem? Winfix my ass suckers!

I'm not familiar with Winfix.

My advice would to not be to install such things on your PC. That sort of software is usually just a waste, does little to nothing for you, can sometimes actually fuck up your machine,...

Get someone you know who knows computers well to help you. Software like this is usually going to do nothing good for you and just suck up RAM and CPU cycles.

Check out the Adblock extension for FF too. I'm not getting the pop ups you are getting, so maybe that is doing something to help. I'm not sure though.

MomoPufflet said:
who the fuck uses ie anyway

Unfortunately most still do.

kaizoku · Jan 31, 2006

Dr_Cogent said:
I'm not familiar with Winfix.

My advice would to not be to install such things on your PC. That sort of software is usually just a waste, does little to nothing for you, can sometimes actually fuck up your machine,...

Get someone you know who knows computers well to help you. Software like this is usually going to do nothing good for you and just suck up RAM and CPU cycles.

Unfortunately most still do.

I don't think it is installed....unless it was pre-instaleld with the laptop. I was under the impresion a pop up ad was doing this. Certainly don't see the prog in my programs folder or in uninstall menu.

i get an ad telling me how I should fix my pc with winfix etc.

edit - whats more, once I click "cancel" popup, a little window stays on top of the firefox window which I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CLOSE!!

So basically its getting in my way of browsing 1up and I can't close it. Even clicking on it doesn't close it, it does however starttrying to download a file ^^

Dr_Cogent · Jan 31, 2006

kaizoku said:
I don't think it is installed....unless it was pre-instaleld with the laptop. I was under the impresion a pop up ad was doing this. Certainly don't see the prog in my programs folder or in uninstall menu.

i get an ad telling me how I should fix my pc with winfix etc.

Oh, ok. I misunderstood.

Dr_Cogent · Jan 31, 2006

What's the exact URL that does it? Simply http://www.1up.com

??

kaizoku · Jan 31, 2006

Dr_Cogent said:
What's the exact URL that does it? Simply http://www.1up.com

??

1up.com lol - keep refreshing homepage, maybe your adblock does help ^^

Tiger · Jan 31, 2006

I don't see any popups with my Mac.

Dr_Cogent · Jan 31, 2006

I've tried and tried, but I can't reproduce your problem. Sorry.

I disabled adblock, disabled blocking pop ups in Firefox, disabled my NoScript from blocking Javascript. Maybe there is some other extension interfering. Sorry.

kaizoku · Jan 31, 2006

Tigerriot said:
I don't see any popups with my Mac.

I should add it doesn't happen everytime. But like 6 or 7 times out of 10. Also happens when I go to PSP/DS/PS2 section etc.

Dr_Cogent · Jan 31, 2006

This may sound nuts, but as a programmer I have seen this a lot. I can't guarantee it's going to help though.

Go uncheck the Block Popup Ads in your options and click ok. Then come back the check it and click ok. Sometimes apps will show something clicked, but for some reason, there can be a bug in the logic and the option isn't really turned on. I've seen it happen time and again.

Give it a shot at least.

kaizoku · Jan 31, 2006

lol i will try that, i know its on cos it just blocked one though.

Anyway thought I'd mention this as these kind of ads tend to be frowned upon by web designers as well as users.

<nu>faust · Jan 31, 2006

MomoPufflet said:
who the fuck uses ie anyway

93% of the ppl who uses a web browser

Tiktaalik · Jan 31, 2006

1up badly needs some sort of option that disables every image and flash and renders the website in clean CSS.

1up is pretty much the only website I know that is so slow that it's hard to use.

Dr_Cogent · Jan 31, 2006

<nu>faust said:
93% of the ppl who uses a web browser

Mostly because most don't know any better. It's what comes preinstalled in their OS, so they just use it not knowing there is a better alternative out there.

Firefox!

<nu>faust · Jan 31, 2006

opera

kaizoku · Jan 31, 2006

Thanks for your help anyway guys! Maybe its something on this laptop >_>

WasabiKing · Jan 31, 2006

MomoPufflet said:
who the fuck uses ie anyway

About 43.9% of you

Danj · Jan 31, 2006

kaizoku said:
Thanks for your help anyway guys! Maybe its something on this laptop >_>

Sounds like you need to do some spyware cleaning.

kaizoku · Jan 31, 2006

Danj said:
Sounds like you need to do some spyware cleaning.

i would have assumed the same...but it only happens on 1up.com >_>

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