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Re: Gripe #14868389
Posted By: Grishny, on host 12.29.132.98
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 04:45:42
In Reply To: Gripe #14868389 posted by Howard on Monday, July 14, 2003, at 19:23:20:

> I never read the ads. Popup or otherwise.
> Howard

You know, for a long time I put up with the
pop-ups because I know they generate
RinkRevenue even if I don't click on them.
Shortly before my computer died, though, I
finally gave in and went and downloaded a
free pop-up blocker program. Why?

Well, I had started playing Murkon's Refuge
again, which requires quite a lot of surfing;
every move you make in the game is a new
page that must be loaded. When I played it a
year ago, I just used Netscape, which for
some reason doesn't display any of the
pop-up windows, but this time around, I
realized that Explorer seems to load the
pages far faster than Netscape, so I used it
instead, but... nearly every move I made in the
game was generating a pop-up window. And
not unique windows either. Normally if you
leave a pop-up on your screen and just
minimize it, the same ad won't pop up again
until you close the first instance of it. But as I
was playing MR, I was having the same set of
four or five pop ups coming up over and over
again, even though I wasn't closing them right
away. I'd have upwards of 20 or more pop up
windows open, and when I'd go to close them,
there'd be five or six of this ad, four of another,
four of a another... well, that was too much for
me.

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