Current POPUNDER junk

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Quivis User

I've started to see more and more sites using code such as the one on http://www.thezreview.co.uk/

And it's really annoying since it can bypass the popup blocker in Firefox. It relies on a click action from the user. Click on the page and you don't have the cookie, you'll get a popunder.

Any ideas on what can be done? I've tried to remove stuff in the code block, but it seems most of the stuff on the page gets lost if I do. Not really that terribly important to keep the blue background and stuff on that site, but I'd like to use the same code everywhere I go and you never know what will happen on other sites.

For testing I'm using this:
document.documentElement.innerHTML =
document.documentElement.innerHTML.replace('src="http://media.fastclick.net', 'src="eh');

TIA

PS
Let me know if you need the full spam code, since it's probably copyrighted by those lamers at fastclick, I wasn't sure if it's appropriate to post it here.

 
Pnoexz Scriptwright

Where do you have to click to get this popup?

 
lucideer Scriptwright

Ya, I was unable to trigger that popunder in FF3, Opera. Safari and IE7 do show popups being blocked, none get through. Is there a particular page where they are getting through?

 
Quivis User

Heh, fancy that. They have changed the code on their pages! All pages I visited earlier had the same JavaScript code in them. While checking the source now, it doesn't look the same. Now it starts with "<!-- TF 1x1 PopUnder code -->" where it used to start with "<!-- FASTCLICK.COM POP-UNDER CODE v1.7e for thezreview.co.uk -->"

So from here, I don't know what to do. I occasionally stumble upon that code on the web, and it always creates an annoying pupunder window.

I guess I have to wait till the next time I find it somewhere and alert you guys about it.

Thanks anyway.