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I am assured the problem will now clear up within 24 hours. Sorry for the disturbance, folks.

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They're baaaaack! :bolt:
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Didn't we just clear these up?

They're not just annoying, they also seem to grab the focus and sometimes the page I intend to go to shows up in the teenytiny popup instead of the ad.

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I presume you're talking about ad-banners, since I don't see them.

I advise:

Firefox+Adblock Plus, or other browser + Privoxy(configuring it takes some learning, but I used it before I switched to Firefox)

There are probably other solutions out there.

Nothing I can think of will help with a library/work computer you can't self-configure, tho :(
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Yeah, it doesn't help me if I block the page the popup is going to; I assume that's why it gets through my blocker.

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I think Crissa's talking about the popups we're also occasionally getting now. Unfortunately, since bbboy uses a popup login window, you have to allow popups from them in order to post. I believe Opera's popup blocker can actually discriminate between the login window and the ads, but you might run into weirdness on other web pages with Opera.

And Adblock/Adblock Plus only work on ads placed within a page (like the banners we're getting at the top of the forum), not on popups, AFAIK.
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Ahhh... I have my browser set so that popups get opened in a new tab, so I don't even notice that they are supposed to be popups.

I also have Javascript Options, NoScript, and a bunch of other addons, some of which may make a difference.
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I have the pop-ups blocked but I am still able to get the logon window in IE. I don't know how I did that.
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AW wrote:I believe Opera's popup blocker can actually discriminate between the login window and the ads, but you might run into weirdness on other web pages with Opera.


Yes, it can. I had no idea that there were banners or pop-ups. I am not getting either. I don't have problems with other websites, either.
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They were gone for a bit, but are back now.
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Pop ups gone now.
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Problem should be fixed for at least a little while.

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