Unblockable popups

[Buffy]

First, go to this site:

http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3

Did you see a couple of popup ads? Is your popup blocker turned on?

I have Firefox's popup blocker on (and no, the site is not an exception), but no matter what, the first time I go to this site in a single session (starting-shutting down FF). This site succeeds in popping up windows.

Does anyone know how they do it?

Nothin' says lovin' like something from the oven,
Buffy

[freeztar]

Interesting. I'm using IE7 and it blocked the first one and then about 30 secs. later one from casalemedia snuck through.

Now we know where you get all those quotes from.

[InfiniteNow]

Before the upgrade, those castalmedia adds would slip through when I came to Hypography, just like it did at the page Buffy referenced. I have pop-up on with a High filter level in IE7, and it still managed to get through every single time.

I'd also be curious to understand how this is done.

[C1ay]

No popups for me with FF and Ad Block Plus....

[mynah]

No pop-ups for me at that site with Firefox Ad Blocker (don't know what version). I do sometimes have a problem with animations moving across the screen, and I wonder if there is any way I could block every ad with the words "belly fat" in the title?

[alexander]

lol no popups for me either FF3, adblock, stylish adblock theme as well...

[CraigD]

Though I don't follow it in detail, my guess is that this script element

<!-- Casale Media 2005 (C) -->
<!-- Ad Format: Pop Under -->
<!-- Domain(s): quotationspage.com -->
<script language="Javascript"><!--
var d=new Date();var r=(d.getTime()%8673806982)+Math.random();var u=escape(window.location.href);
var host=' language="Javascript" src="http://as.casalemedia.com/s?s=';
document.write('<scr'+'ipt'+host+'62855&u='+u+'&f= 1&id='+r+'"></scr'+'ipt>');
//--></script>
<!-- Casale Media 2005 (C) -->

is doing the magic. Expressions like "'<scr'+'ipt'" seem designed to defeat simple blockers.

Interestingly, when I opened the page with no blockers of any kind on, it popped up 2 browsers, but when I closed everything and followed the link to it again, it popped up nothing.

The page appears to clean up after itself, so you can't see the event that started all the fun - likely the body element's load attrib. With enought time and patience, I'm confident anyone could figure out what its up to by just writing to and reading from the host, but as I've no pressing desire to learn Casale's cunning tricks, I won't be doing this anytime soon

[freeztar]

Did you guys let your browser sit idle on that page for 30 secs.? That's when one popped through for me, not initially.

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by freeztar

Did you guys let your browser sit idle on that page for 30 secs.? That's when one popped through for me, not initially.

I intentionally let mine rest there for several minutes.....

[Tormod]

No popups in Safari.

And for the record, there should be no popups at Hypography either, it's been a while since I ditched them even for visitors (but some old sections might still have the code...). They pay well but they are really a nuisance.