I've had all my pop ups blocked today. I even visited those sites that have tons of em, and I watched my blocked pop ups counter ring up like a slot machine. I hope the can keep this up, because this is about the only good thing AOL has done in awhile.
AOL pop up blocker
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MY85pontiac
im too old for this crap!
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- May 17, 2002
i agree. their pop up blocker works like a charm. now if only the other web browsers had this feature.....
all they need to do now is keep spammers from scanning rooms for screen names and AOL will be a lot more pleasurable.
this was a huge step in the right direction. the only problem here is that their pop up blocker is an OPTION. if you dont know its there you dont know to get it. it should be an automatic update of AOL software so EVERYONE has it.
all they need to do now is keep spammers from scanning rooms for screen names and AOL will be a lot more pleasurable.
this was a huge step in the right direction. the only problem here is that their pop up blocker is an OPTION. if you dont know its there you dont know to get it. it should be an automatic update of AOL software so EVERYONE has it.
equalizer442
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- Oct 23, 2002
you mean turbobuick.com?
well you have to remember aol is not a babysitter. i should know i was raised by it and look how i became!!! do you want your son to be like me!!!
if you dont trust your son to go on the net then you should be about 2 steps behind him, aol controls down right suck so dont depend on them. the best thing to do is move the computer to a public place, say a faimly room, and take a peak every once and a while at where hes going, if it looks bad embarise the liveing ^&*( out of him.
MY85pontiac
im too old for this crap!
- Joined
- May 17, 2002
go to AOL keyword :member report. there it will tell you about it. click the thing at the bottom and it will automatically DL to your computer and the next time you use your browser no more pop ups.
and no parental controls dont work very well, the best protection is the watchful eye of a parent. moving the computer to a more "public" area of the house does work. of course you CAN set their SN up to accept no IMs PERIOD, people complain about those more than pop ups. i have mine blocked from everyone except those on my buddy list and i get ZERO spams via IM. the only thing left for me is to block everyone from my email except those i list but since i with a couple of g-body groups and the email comes from the member through the group i'd have to add a bunch of people to a list and i'll probably miss someone and then i'll get complaints on emails bouncing and its a big headache at the moment so i just do the "report and block" method for the moment.
aol is slowly getting better but they still need to keep people from scanning all the rooms for SNs to spam with IMs and emails.
lately however there has been a new breed of spammer. the bot. similar to yahoos problem this bot stays in the room and instead of putting a link in the room (a violation of TOS) they instead give you this impression they are a part of some conversation in the room and make remarks suggesting you to look at their profile. of course the link is in the profile, no violation there so they are within the rules of TOS for AOL and AOL cant do diddly with them. even if they get rid of the bot its only temporary and another one replaces it soon after the first one is booted. this isnt a rampant problem yet but im sure as more and more spammers catch on this will become a probklem so great that you'll have upwards of 5 or more bots in every room taking up space and basically annoying the hell out of you. you can manually ignore them but that doesnt solve the problem that REAL customers are being kept out of certain rooms because they are full because of spammers bots.
personally i dont understand why they blindly send emails and IMs to everyone saying something like "hi i'm an 18 y/o female and my panties keep falling off". every single person who has a computer knows where to find porn so its not like these people need to do much advertising. good sites dont need to advertise, whther they be porn or a more family friendly site, word of mouth usually carries better than a spam someone is going to delete ASAP without even thinking about it.
nothing would giev me more pleasure than to find the people who spam me and beat every last one of them to a bloody pulp and send them to the hospital in a coma. they are wasting large amounts of server space in the hopes that 1 in 10 thousand people they spam will look at their site which in turn costs us more money in the long run. it ruins or seriously diminishes any fun you would be having. instead you spend your time deleting emails you dont want, deleting IMs you dont want, ignoring SNs telling you to "click here! live cam action!" and its getting worse every year, every month every week it gradually gets worse and worse.
porn site owners, hackers wanting your account info so they can mes with your account because they are complete losers, all wanting you to click here and people are actually dumb enough to click it. and thats why people get spammed so much, because it works, if it didnt then it wouldnt happen. delet it, report it, block it ignore it. if everyone did those four things spamming would go down dramatically but it wont, there are teenage boys instead of looking for it on their own click on that crap and its not always to a porn site! remember people there are hackers who do the same thing in the hopes they can get your ISP address and DESTROY your PC via the phonecord, steal any credit card info you have on the computer, your personal info. UL a virus or prog designed to give them every password to every site you go to so they can wreak havoc on you.
and no parental controls dont work very well, the best protection is the watchful eye of a parent. moving the computer to a more "public" area of the house does work. of course you CAN set their SN up to accept no IMs PERIOD, people complain about those more than pop ups. i have mine blocked from everyone except those on my buddy list and i get ZERO spams via IM. the only thing left for me is to block everyone from my email except those i list but since i with a couple of g-body groups and the email comes from the member through the group i'd have to add a bunch of people to a list and i'll probably miss someone and then i'll get complaints on emails bouncing and its a big headache at the moment so i just do the "report and block" method for the moment.
aol is slowly getting better but they still need to keep people from scanning all the rooms for SNs to spam with IMs and emails.
lately however there has been a new breed of spammer. the bot. similar to yahoos problem this bot stays in the room and instead of putting a link in the room (a violation of TOS) they instead give you this impression they are a part of some conversation in the room and make remarks suggesting you to look at their profile. of course the link is in the profile, no violation there so they are within the rules of TOS for AOL and AOL cant do diddly with them. even if they get rid of the bot its only temporary and another one replaces it soon after the first one is booted. this isnt a rampant problem yet but im sure as more and more spammers catch on this will become a probklem so great that you'll have upwards of 5 or more bots in every room taking up space and basically annoying the hell out of you. you can manually ignore them but that doesnt solve the problem that REAL customers are being kept out of certain rooms because they are full because of spammers bots.
personally i dont understand why they blindly send emails and IMs to everyone saying something like "hi i'm an 18 y/o female and my panties keep falling off". every single person who has a computer knows where to find porn so its not like these people need to do much advertising. good sites dont need to advertise, whther they be porn or a more family friendly site, word of mouth usually carries better than a spam someone is going to delete ASAP without even thinking about it.
nothing would giev me more pleasure than to find the people who spam me and beat every last one of them to a bloody pulp and send them to the hospital in a coma. they are wasting large amounts of server space in the hopes that 1 in 10 thousand people they spam will look at their site which in turn costs us more money in the long run. it ruins or seriously diminishes any fun you would be having. instead you spend your time deleting emails you dont want, deleting IMs you dont want, ignoring SNs telling you to "click here! live cam action!" and its getting worse every year, every month every week it gradually gets worse and worse.
porn site owners, hackers wanting your account info so they can mes with your account because they are complete losers, all wanting you to click here and people are actually dumb enough to click it. and thats why people get spammed so much, because it works, if it didnt then it wouldnt happen. delet it, report it, block it ignore it. if everyone did those four things spamming would go down dramatically but it wont, there are teenage boys instead of looking for it on their own click on that crap and its not always to a porn site! remember people there are hackers who do the same thing in the hopes they can get your ISP address and DESTROY your PC via the phonecord, steal any credit card info you have on the computer, your personal info. UL a virus or prog designed to give them every password to every site you go to so they can wreak havoc on you.
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