Comments on: Time Spent When A Pop-Up Ad Comes Up

By: Keiya

Keiya — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:13:52 +0000

IMDB doesn’t need Javascript. Remove its permission, problem solved.

By: John Curd

John Curd — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:18:21 +0000

So damn true

By: BigFrankie

BigFrankie — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:58:44 +0000

I think this is referring to the pop-up ads that appear inside the window. Like on IMDB all the time.

By: Pinto

Pinto — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:09:33 +0000

Amen.

Pop-ups feel like a distant memory. When was this chart made, 2002?

By: Cougar Allen

Cougar Allen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:52:39 +0000

That would be IF a pop-up ad comes up. You don’t have to allow that….

-Cougar :{)

By: Ghostwish

Ghostwish — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:39:33 +0000

Firefox.

Nuff said.

By: prikolist

prikolist — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:12:55 +0000

Well if you’re using a modern browser, you’ll probably use ctrl-w more to just close the tab instead of everything you’re looking at. Haven’t clicked the x button in a long time. Besides, pop-up blockers do get rid of most of them

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:07:43 +0000

When has one of those very special pop-ups ever appeared in your taskbar?

In my experience, never ever ever.

By: prote

prote — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:15:28 +0000

for some reason this graph won’t show up on my opera so i tried using IE to open this site, but changed my mind after waiting 10 seconds for about:blank to load on IE. wonder how long would it take to load some really graphic bloated site lol

By: another person

another person — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:19:22 +0000

But but but, you don’t click on it at all….! You click on your task bar, right mouse button, then CLOSE.

By: thestashattacked

thestashattacked — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:39:50 +0000

Is there a way to make this work better? It doesn’t do much for me, and I’ve put it at its highest setting.

By: Crystallia

Crystallia — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:14:14 +0000

Either that or Chrome with the adblock addon.

Either way it’s better than IE or anything IE-based.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:32:44 +0000

For those pop-ups that move/conceal/remove/delay the exit button, I don’t see how this is unusual.

Every time one of those hijacks my screen real estate, I want to murder entire families of ad execs. I doubt it would help, though.

By: Orzo

Orzo — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:26:28 +0000

Win. Not only do I avoid idiotic popups and rollovers, I now am never tempted to buy yet more stuff I don’t need.

By: Squid

Squid — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:02:42 +0000

This graph, it speaks to me.

By: Ydobon

Ydobon — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:43:12 +0000

microsoft internet explorer FAIL.
Get firefox + ABP.

By: Radar

Radar — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:19:59 +0000

P’op U’p? sounds like star trek to me.

By: cyxap

cyxap — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:00:29 +0000

yeah, it’s cool to have the ability to quickly hit the Alt+F4 combination… it saved me from lots of problems…

By: Purple Switch

Purple Switch — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:54:18 +0000

Alt-F4 is your friend.

A well-developed Alt-F4 reflex can save you from much despair at the state of humanity.

By: just me

just me — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:53:16 +0000

This seems like it would be better presented as a pie chart.

By: AL

AL — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:14:40 +0000

WOW

By: lol

lol — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:40:15 +0000

u need 10 seconds to ''find'' the X button? xD

By: Yeah

Yeah — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:33:56 +0000

Pop up ads? What are those?