Insomnia Pops
 

FYI - There here. 1x per 15mins and will be gone the later part of the month.

Post in this thread with any technical problems you may have with the ad

I hate to complain, but I guess this didn't hold true.... :(

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...n&pagenumber=2




How much money does this type of campaign raise for you anyhow, if I may ask? (ie: how much in donations do you need to tell your advertiser to shove it?)

I got one, and it closed just fine. No problems yet.

Movie Man - The pop-up ads were a mandatory part of the campaign. In general we don't sell them unless the entire ad deal hinges on it. And again with this one... it did.

Worked fine.
AND I got my answer right.
:D
mini

Working fine for me. I did have 3 in a row with new windows being opened though, not 1 every 15mins. I followed the giveaway link from the email, that opened #1. Then entered the giveaway and got #2, and then clicked on Home and got #3. No big deal, I didn't really care about it, but thought you might want to know if someone else says something about it.

Fine so far. I don't mind them at all.

http://files.joako.com/insomnia.jpg

:D

:lol: @ dek.

(actually it's a silent laugh....)

-k
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I've been getting ActiveX errors on one of my computers at work since you started running these popups. Every time I look at a page with a banner on it it gives me an error and I have to hit OK to continue.

Irritating.

DTSC - That actually could be the Flash banner running....

Well it started around 11 am our time yesterday, so figure that one out, chief. :)

Flash banner

Yeah, so what do I do to fix it. It says something about the activex control being unsafe and that it wno't be downloaded or some crap. EVERY SINGLE PAGE.

Go into the security settings of IE and allow ActiveX controls that are not marked as safe to run. You might have to allow them to download too.

I wouldn't, I'd rather get the message. But that's how you "fix" it.

I was going to post about this
but since they're supposed to keep coming up my question is answered. I was hoping it was supposed to be a once per session thing that was messed up, but unfortunately its not

oh well, I understand there are bills to pay

DIdn't work, kemosabe.

EDIT: Bah nevermind, I just fired up Mozilla, because I'm not going to enable ActiveX in IE...

FYI - The pops are scheduled to stop 10/23 and there are no POP-UNDERS that run while the pop-up campaign is live :)

Then try enabling a few more, and set them to "enable", not just "prompt". Try "Download signed ActiveX controls", "Download unsigned ActiveX controls" (maybe try this one last), "Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins", "Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting".

I'm on a T3 and I've found that the Insomnia flash banner seems to slow down the site a bit ... seems to be better now though ...

Damn_ads are keeping me up at night

Finally got it fixed. After about 5 different permutations of all the activeX controls. Thanks. :)

I usually just Ctrl-W popups so fast that they don't even have time to load but the Insomnia ones were getting to be a bit much. I set my Pop-up Killer to nail them; makes a nice ray-gun zapping sound. Very satisfying... :)

Truth is, I'd rather have pop-ups than no DVD Talk.

Insomnia ad is officially driving me crazy.

No, not the pop-up, the flash banner.

That thing is damn annoying!

What banner?

I tend to ignore banners unless they have nude women on them :o

by the way. I am ok with things like this since they help keep dvdtalk alive :)

Just get a popup killer.

If i buy it , will they stop...please...make them stop!

Insomnia?
 

You must be seeing things. Get some sleep.

OK, this one is often enough to be annoying. It drove me to a popup killer. Do advertisers understand it doesn't pay to really po customers?

Half of the pop-ups load fine. The other half take upwards of a minute to load, during which time my browser is frozen (can't scroll or push the IE buttons). This is the same reason I had to stop reading at EZboard.

Is anyone else having this problem? Any work-arounds? I know this is supposed to stop on 10/23, but for future referecnce, this may be helpful, especially if Geoff has to do this again in the future.


SPY

Re : Every 15 minutes a Pop-Up

Just got 2 in under 5 minutes

edit, make that 3 in less than 7

hehe, dek has AOL

Two suggestions: a pop-up killer will usually close them before they finish loading (the one I use is no longer available but a google search will find many others). But, in my experience, the easy way to deal with pop-ups is to close them from the keyboard as soon as the little window starts to appear. This is done on a "wintel" machine with a [Cntrl-W] command (this command will close windows for many types of programs, not just browsers). On a Mac I believe that it is [Apple-W]. To toggle between windows use [Alt-Tab] on a
wintel machine.

Whether this will work if your computer is locked up with a loading window I don't know. But it is worth a try.

The only catch is that the window doesnt appear while its loading. It locks up the computer, then after a minute, loads normally.

SPY

The pop-up that ask if pacino and williams have been in a movie together is wrong. It says that they starred in awakenings together.

Yeah! FU! :p It's for my parents who are stuck in the stone age. I just got them the other day how to open a digital photo I sent them.

Add that to the fact that everytime I ask an AT&T bastard "When can I get Cable modem or DSL?" they either laugh, or say "In like, 2 years" doesn't help either. At work I am in heaven with DSL, home I am in hell.

Go dance with Brett Farve the injury boy!

2 days to go!!! :thumbsup:

Dek, funny artwork. :lol: :D

Over and Done