Re: Adshield & Popups (was Roombas cheap on letsautomate)

["Steve Edwards <edwards_sj@xxxxxxx>" <edwards_sj@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark Hetherington" 
<mark.egroups@m...> wrote:

> IIRC the latest versions of AdSheild, at least, do not stop much 
> if anything automatically "for legal reasons". I guess a
popup 
> spammer managed to convince them that it was protected by 
> the "sacred" constitutional right to freedom of speech
[sic]

er... no, I'm using the latest version and it does stop popups, well 
nearly all of them anyway.

You can also set up a list of banners and flash images that you wish 
to block, this lists starts out blank and you have to add them 
yourself.

Perhaps this is what you are thinking of?

> These days, I do not protect myself from popups since it is a way 
> to reduce the companies I might buy from if there are several 
> offering something I want over the net.

If only it was just online retailers that use popups...

Cheers

Steve



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