arrogant popups

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:07 pm

do some of you think that some popups are arrogant?

I just got this popup that asked me if I wanted to miss a chance to live and work in the USA. It gave me three options: yes, no and cancel.

I pressed cancel and got a Green Card application form thingie. ("Thingie" because I didn't read it all carefully).

I mananged to free myself of this and reopened and there was the popup again. This time I chose the "YES" option, meaning yes I do want to miss the chance to win a Green Card. So what do I get? An application form again.

What does that tell you about the people that designed this popup? You know, the part where you exercise your vote and they just ignore it?

Do you think they learned this trick from the rickshaw guys in India. You know, you tell them no!, you don't need a rickshaw to travel 10 metres and they still hound you on and on.

It just makes me think that there is a lot of commonality between the world's most powerful democracy and the world's largest democracy.

Now that should be a good thing, shouldn't it?

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:55 am

Frankly, I think most of the programs on computers were designed arrogantly. I remember the Mac Classic, which took less than a quarter minute to start up. Then, you could turn it off and back on and find your desktop exactly as it was. Now I have to wait for a computer that runs much faster than the old Mac to finally get up and running, because they think we need all the bells and whistles more than we need a straightforward computer that runs quickly and efficiently, and that “tidies up” every time it gets turned off, and places files in “safe” places so you have to go look for them in the bowls of the memory after downloading them. I could see having defaults, but not not giving you a straightforward way to do things on your own terms. I liked having a desktop that stayed in the nice, tidy, LOGICAL way I left it. Programs are now about as intuitive and logical as English is phonetic, including the Macs. I should just go with open source operating and systems and software.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:08 am

I think it means that when you get a popup your only real choice is to hit the X, and not pick any of its choices at all. Does this work on pcs? Or will even X give you a response?

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:14 am

Why not just set your browser to block all pop-ups?

djm

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:51 am

djm wrote:Why not just set your browser to block all pop-ups?

djm

Because you have to unblock them for so many sites.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:58 am

You should never assume that a pop-up is legitimate or that it's actually going to do what it says it will.

The only safe practice is to close them out with the X.

One of these days if you're not careful, one of those friendly pop-ups is going to deliver more to your PC than just a green card application.

--James

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:44 am

I ALWAYS hit the X. I have, on few occasions, found the X to be just another link to the same crap as the old Yes, No and Cancel though. Arrogant popups!

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Tue May 22, 2007 11:17 am

I just block popups. In the rare case that one leaks through I actually close it out by right clicking on it in the task bar and hitting close there.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Tue May 22, 2007 11:57 am

I routinely block pop-ups.
One day a friend send me an email mentioning a site called hi5. (hi5.com, if you really want to take a look.)
After a couple of days, it became apparent that this curséd site had occupied my address book and spammed everyone in it inviting them to join this site in MY name.
I was outraged. I still am. After snooping about, I learned that there was a popup asking me whether I would like to do such a thing. But because I had blocked the pop-up, it assumed I had answered "yes".

So I unspammed everyone in my address book, telling them I had been sold a pup, and that I did NOT endorse this site. And on the page I had been given on the site, I left a similar message. I've never been back. Occasionally I get a message from them telling me that someone (the name varies, but always one of these cutesy -i names) wants to contact me on the site. Not on yer nellie. Forget it chum.

Yes. Arrogant popups and ignorant websites.

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Tue May 22, 2007 5:25 pm

straycat82 wrote:I ALWAYS hit the X. I have, on few occasions, found the X to be just another link to the same crap as the old Yes, No and Cancel though. Arrogant popups!

Yes, I know about the X and how it works but your latter is what happened with the one I am talking about.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Tue May 22, 2007 5:40 pm

peeplj wrote:You should never assume that a pop-up is legitimate or that it's actually going to do what it says it will.

The only safe practice is to close them out with the X.

One of these days if you're not careful, one of those friendly pop-ups is going to deliver more to your PC than just a green card application.

--James

What James said.

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Tue May 22, 2007 6:02 pm

BUDDHU, it has been a long time since you last popped up in one of my topics.

I hope at your next popup you may have something original to say.

I have noticed that whenever you do popup anywhere it is never arrogant.

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:29 pm

Arrogant Popups would be a good name for a band.

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:50 pm

Yes, the band could turn up at venues without being booked and take over the show.

They could ask for audience requests and then denigrate audience suggestions.

When audience applauses, band could tell them their applause is presumptious seeing as they don't know nothing about music. That way audience booing could be pre-emptively nullified.

This denigrating attitude to audiences is analogous to certain session musos who think that unless you can actually play their instrument you have no credentials to comment on their music.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:53 pm

talasiga wrote:Yes, the band could turn up at venues without being booked and take over the show.

They could ask for audience requests and then denigrate audience suggestions.

When audience applauses, band could tell them their applause is presumptious seeing as they don't know nothing about music. That way audience booing could be pre-emptively nullified.

This denigrating attitude to audiences is analogous to certain session musos who think that unless you can actually play their instrument you have no credentials to comment on their music.

Wow, Tal (I'm feeling a bit rebellious tonight, hence the usage of "Tal"...I hope you understand

)...that was really pretty funny!