Tuesday, August 30, 2005


Addressing the pop-up/banners/ads issue

Receiving a lot of complains about pop-ups, wierd banners and ads and stuff appearing on the website.

"Your website become fishtank liao..." -- quoted from a certain Mr Wijaya, referring to a fishtank screensaver ad

First of all, lemme point out that this is free webhosting. I am getting unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, ftp access and a decent uptime for $0.00. As there is no free lunch in this world, the ads are part of the bargain.

Secondly, people ask, "why not blogspot?" Blogspot is not webspace!!! Where do you think these images constituting the elegant design of my site (cough cough) are kept? You think they are floating around in the air waiting to be absorbed onto the monitor screen when you access my site? I nid the webspace for the design. If i use blogspot, i'm confined to using templates of other ppl, which makes my site identical to like 183,572,893,578,926,515 other blogs on the web. Yah, and sometimes I post images and pics, which have to be hosted in the webspace.

Now lemme address the prob directly. When I access the website, I get at most one or two pop-ups, which I am able to close even b4 they load completely (which prevents opening of more pop-ups if there are evil scripts in those popups). Secondly, the superimposed ads/banners on the site itself go away when I refresh the site (use ctrl F5 for hard refresh).

So if you're seeing stuff I dun, probably ur system is not well protected and infected wif malware and adware, which throws ads and pop-ups randomly during ur surfing. Or juz ur luck lar. Suck thumb.

Thus I recommend installing pop-up blockers and active adware protections in your browsers. These stuff drastically improves ur web surfing experience (not juz for my site) and maintains ur system's integrity. My IE is version 6.0, MSN toolbar installed (blocks most popups), immunised wif Spybot S&D 1.3 and also protected by Spywareblaster. In addition I run scans wif Spybot S&D 1.3 and Adaware SE 1.06. All these can be obtained at download.com

So hope u understand and have a better experience at my site after reading this post. =)

posted by nwxiang at 10:39 PM |


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