{"id":5979,"date":"2004-06-14T09:06:51","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T16:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/14\/pop-2.html"},"modified":"2004-06-14T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T16:06:51","slug":"pop_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/14\/pop_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Pop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"PopupTest - test your popup blocker software and download software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popuptest.com\/\">Test your popup blocker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as Indiana Jones III would say, <i>&#8220;<s>Nazis<\/s> Popups.  I hate these guys.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The page has a set of common popup types you can click on (my software blocked all of these), and some less common types (some blocked, some got through).  There&#8217;s also a review of &#8220;good&#8221; popups (3\/4 of which are blocked on my machine), and a catalog of popup blocking software.<\/p>\n<p>All that&#8217;s missing is an analysis of what sort of settings on what software will block the stuff that got through.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I&#8217;m currently using the popup blocker in <a href=\"http:\/\/flashpeak.com\">Slimbrowser<\/a> and also using <a href=\"http:\/\/popupcop.com\">PopupCop <\/a>(which occasionally catches something that Slimbrowser lets slip through).  That keeps me with a pretty popup-free browsing experience, though not even they can protect against the intrusive horrors at TVGuide.com.<\/p>\n<p>The new IE is supposed to have an M$-bundled popup blocker in it.  We&#8217;ll see how that works, one of these days.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekpress.com\/2004_06_14_daily.html#108689489356895099\">GeekPress<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Test your popup blocker. Or, as Indiana Jones III would say, &#8220;Nazis Popups. 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