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[w3526602]

Hi,

Is there anyway that I can charge the advertiser £1 every time the slap a pop-up (is that the right word?) onto my screen?

OK, so they will ignore me. But if I wait till I've got a thousand, then take out a Small Claim ... they will have to pay a solicitor, to defend them. If nobody turns up in court, then I win.

I assume many of our UK readers have watched "THE SHERIFFS ARE COMING" on morning TV?

Small change? What ... even if only 1% of narked victims follow my lead. Or if a similar number simply write to their MP.

There! I feel better now. 

602

[TJRL]

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OK, so they will ignore me. But if I wait till I've got a thousand, then take out a Small Claim ... they will have to pay a solicitor, to defend them. If nobody turns up in court, then I win.

602

But if they turn up and win, you could get hit with their costs!! 
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[Wittsend]

Why don't you just activate the "pop-up" blocker in your Browser options

You ain't got a cat in hells chance of claiming anything from them as they are all based overseas and outside of our jurisdiction so you'd just be wasting your time.

[w3526602]

You ain't got a cat in hells chance

Hi Alan,

I agree ... but my thoughts may provoke somebody else into coming up with the solution ... eg - "brain storming".

"Pop-up blocker"?  I won't ask where I would find that. 

Co-incidentally ... logging on just now ... pop-up ... EURO DEVALUED!

602

[Wittsend]

Just type "stop pop up ads" into your web browser or Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle

Grab a cup of tea and read through the suggestions.
Some are very easy to implement and walk you though the process.


 

[w3526602]

Some are very easy to implement and walk you though the process.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for that (but I'll believe the "easy" bit when I see it).

Frankly, while grateful for everybody's kindness, just about all of their advice is meaningless to me. (My fault). It might just as well be in Swahili patois. Probably akin to the days when every young lad knew how to dig stones out of a horses hoof, and carried a jack-knife. Hands up all those here who have never seen a jack-knife? (I haven't seen one since I left school).

Hands up those who don't know what I'm taking about when I refer to washing a horse's sheath? I wonder if Google can offer advice on that subject? 

If you are in the loop ....

I signed on this morning, to say that I will be taking a break, until I get this problem solved ... maybe a new PC for Xmas? With luck, Alan's advice will solve things quicker.

602

Off topic ... the lovely (true) lady from Social Services, rolled up with a folding ramp, to see if it would be adequate for getting Barbara out of the house. Yes!, though I will have to cobble something to get her her over the 3" high threshold (the front door has a frame on all four sides) to get up onto the top of ramp, from indoors. I'm thinking of laminating a ramp out of varying lengths of 1/2" WBP.  Her buggy will "burn rubber" if obstructed.

I told the lady that she should be wearing a "white hat", then had to explain what a "white hat" implied. She seemed delighted with the idea ... despite wearing boots with polished steel toe-caps.

[Dopey]

I use Firefox, with all the add-ons, I no longer get ads, even sponsored YouTube stuff id skipped, same for Facebook and many others, and I still get the old Facebook layout as well.

[TJRL]

I use Firefox, with all the add-ons, I no longer get ads, even sponsored YouTube stuff id skipped, same for Facebook and many others, and I still get the old Facebook layout as well.

Hi Dopey, following your recommendation  I am giving Firefox a go, what are "all the add-ons" I need to install?   

[Craig T]

I used to use Firefox but found it was getting very slow and I had no add on's either. I then switched to Chrome which I liked a lot more but now have gone to Microsoft Edge.

I kept seeing the Edge prompts in Windows 10 saying, give me a chance so, after building a new PC with a fresh Windows 10 install I tried it and actually really liked it. There is a local building supplies company to me that has an online ordering system but I couldn't get it to work on Chrome or Firefox. Morrisons online delivery also didn't display the checkout button on Chrome.
On Edge though, both those pages and every other page I've tried so far display and work fine.

I know some people seem to have an automatic dislike of anything from Microsoft but 99% of the time, they do make things that simply work.

Craig.

[Wittsend]

Internet browsers are like brake shoes ... one brand is best for a short time, then another comes along and bests it.

So what we recommend today may not be the best next year,

That said, I still find Mozilla's Firefox (and Thunderbird for email, and FileZilla for FTP) fast and efficient on my speedy Dell laptop.

I sometimes use Opera as it has a free VPN 

Other browsers are available.


I guess the answer is try them and stick to one you like.


 

[martinthefirst]

As we are off topic, and you mentioned VPN's, I have noticed today that my VPN (NORD) blocks some but not all images on this site, strange.

[Wittsend]

Off Topic posts - look where we are 

You can't have everything ... 

Try Opera