> > 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.

Um... why waste time and money on popup elimination programs? Simply turn off Javascript interpretation from your browser. This stops *ALL* Javascript, and without Javascript, you can't make popups. Thankfully.