BUY IT NOW OR YOUR FRIENDS WILL HATE YOU!
Does this look familiar to anyone?
Yeah, it's a way to try to trick the browser into displaying a pop-up ad, which gets around the usual pop-up blockers because they've split the SCRIPT part of it into two, as I expect the blockers look for a whole word. It's also using a random number generator so that the URL will be unique every time it spawns. The company in question (which I replaced with **URL**) is actually advertising.com. Just go to Dictionary.com and look at the source code to see for yourself. This only came to my attention because I've recently been seeing pop-up ads appear on my screen when I was used to having them suppressed. What surprised me even more was that after receiving a pop-up ad saying "CONGRATULATIONS! You're our 1,000,000 visitor!" from some unknown company, I tried it again and got a different pop-up ad for Norwich Union, a supposedly reputable company getting it's advertisements to the user by sneaky round the back tactics. Of course I don't blame Norwich Union themselves, but obviously this Advertising.com company they've chosen to spread their good news is acknowledging that people don't want pop-up ads, and circumventing current blocking methods to defy the people it's trying to target.
This is war! (draws marker-pen under each eye as I don't have war paint)
In other news, I've been signed off work up til next Monday in the hope that I only have a virus causing labyrinthitis. In the meantime, I'm reading the first book of His Dark Materials entitled Northern Lights. It's gripping, atmospheric, imaginative and other words broad-sheets spurt out to be quoted on the back of books.
I've also burned all episodes of Tripping The Rift rather neatly onto a dual-layer disc complete with decent looking menu system. Unfortunately, the resolution and encoding quality of the raw video files I used wasn't great, but it's tolerable. I wanted to rework the 8 Knightmare episodes I have so that the end music doesn't have some-one saying "NEXT ON CHALLENGE TV, SOME PIECE OF CRAP YOU'RE NOT LIKELY TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT BECAUSE IT COULDN'T BE ANY LESS LIKE THE PROGRAM YOU'VE JUST WATCHED!" Also to work the logo off the screen using some video smudge process or something.
Yeah, it's a way to try to trick the browser into displaying a pop-up ad, which gets around the usual pop-up blockers because they've split the SCRIPT part of it into two, as I expect the blockers look for a whole word. It's also using a random number generator so that the URL will be unique every time it spawns. The company in question (which I replaced with **URL**) is actually advertising.com. Just go to Dictionary.com and look at the source code to see for yourself. This only came to my attention because I've recently been seeing pop-up ads appear on my screen when I was used to having them suppressed. What surprised me even more was that after receiving a pop-up ad saying "CONGRATULATIONS! You're our 1,000,000 visitor!" from some unknown company, I tried it again and got a different pop-up ad for Norwich Union, a supposedly reputable company getting it's advertisements to the user by sneaky round the back tactics. Of course I don't blame Norwich Union themselves, but obviously this Advertising.com company they've chosen to spread their good news is acknowledging that people don't want pop-up ads, and circumventing current blocking methods to defy the people it's trying to target.
This is war! (draws marker-pen under each eye as I don't have war paint)
In other news, I've been signed off work up til next Monday in the hope that I only have a virus causing labyrinthitis. In the meantime, I'm reading the first book of His Dark Materials entitled Northern Lights. It's gripping, atmospheric, imaginative and other words broad-sheets spurt out to be quoted on the back of books.
I've also burned all episodes of Tripping The Rift rather neatly onto a dual-layer disc complete with decent looking menu system. Unfortunately, the resolution and encoding quality of the raw video files I used wasn't great, but it's tolerable. I wanted to rework the 8 Knightmare episodes I have so that the end music doesn't have some-one saying "NEXT ON CHALLENGE TV, SOME PIECE OF CRAP YOU'RE NOT LIKELY TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT BECAUSE IT COULDN'T BE ANY LESS LIKE THE PROGRAM YOU'VE JUST WATCHED!" Also to work the logo off the screen using some video smudge process or something.