Sites completely overrun with ads/pop-ups/commercials

Mr.Smith · Apr 13, 2006

espn.com
sportsline.com
pgatour.com

feel free to add on. and anyone got good alternatives to these?

Dante · Apr 13, 2006

when I stream music of the net I get lots of pop ups also..sucks

Duckstabber · Apr 13, 2006

If you're using Opera or Firefox you should be able to block banners and pop-ups.

TTinCO · Apr 13, 2006

There are a lot of free pop up blockers available at download.com. Norton's firewall also comes with one built in.

If you are getting that many pop ups, it's quite possible that they are due to spyware\adware on your machine rather than the site itself. I'd do a virus & spyware sweep.

Presto · Apr 13, 2006

Not so much with pop ups but sites that are stuffed with a bunch of clutter on the front page are MLB.com and NBA.com. Those sites put some of their popular links next to banners making it easy to accidently click the irritating banner.

FairWarning · Apr 13, 2006

TTinCO said:
There are a lot of free pop up blockers available at download.com. Norton's firewall also comes with one built in.

If you are getting that many pop ups, it's quite possible that they are due to spyware\adware on your machine rather than the site itself. I'd do a virus & spyware sweep.

Good post. Also there are some Microsoft security patches that came out this week.