When Will Companies Stop Using Pop Ups?

Pop ups, the most useless and annoying things that you will ever come across while surfing the internet. Pop ups were once used as a legitimate way to get advertising to web surfers and because they were successful at first, companies began to use more of them, making you wade through tons of popup pages to get to information you were looking for on a website.

Once pop up killers became popular and more effective a lot of companies went looking for the next best way to get visitors and attention to their website and whatever it was that they were selling. A few however have stayed with the old pop ups and they will just not go away.

While most will comment that you should simply get a pop up killer and be done with it, it is not that simple. A pop up killer is not 100% effective and you will still see a few pop ups daily or weekly, depending on how often you use the internet. A key problem with pop up killers is their ineffectiveness of being able to recognize a link that you clicked on that has opened in a pop up window and a pop up that has opened by itself and is nothing more than an annoying advertisement.

What happens then is that the pop up killer will kill that pop up you wanted and you will have to turn it off if you really want to get to the page. Some programs have a fail safe and it is usually something as simple as holding down the ctrl key while you click on a link. Doing that does not always work and you will instead hear the sound of your wanted pop up dying repeatedly. With newer updates in web browsers, separate pop up killers are no longer necessary but even these built in protectors do not work all of the time. A few sneaky pop ups still manage to make their way in.

Pop ups are hated because they are not only annoying but they are dangerous in many ways. As Julie Amero found out in my other article "School Teacher Faces Prison For Pop Ups" pop ups can have the police and FBI knocking on your door. You can go to the most innocent of web pages and suddenly find pop ups containing nude images of children or you can even have nude images of adults pop up when you are sitting there with your own kids.

Other dangers of pop ups can lead to Trojans, viruses and spyware getting onto your computer just from visiting one website. But the most annoying of all is opening the page of a webpage only to have one pop up after another open and every time you close one, two more pops up until you have nothing left to do except restart the computer.

At the end of the day no one program will do it all for you. You can have the best pop up blocker in the world but pop ups will get through. To protect yourself, make sure that your pop up blocker is turned on and that you have a program such as Norton System Works, Zone Alarm and a great free spyware program called Spybot.