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In a msg of , George Fliger writes to Bas Heijermans:
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George,
BH>> so decided to leave that site but it wouldn't close on me and opened
BH>> every time a new window to send me back, even when I changed
BH>> the url. I had to kill NS to get rid of them!
GF> Then I'm afraid you need to educate yourself on some of these
GF> porn sites. This is a very common practice to get you to stay
GF> within their realm so they have a chance to possibly sell you
GF> some of their services. When you hit a site that acts like this,
GF> simply go into preferences, advanced and turn off Javascript.
GF> This will stop the action. You can then enter in a URL you want
GF> to go to and you will be able to get out of the Javascript
GF> "loop". Once out you simply reenable Javascript.
The Castlewood Systems site used to do that, too, and it isn't a porn site!
:^) Apparently enough people complained that they change the code to fix it.
It really was excessively annoying!
-[Steve]-
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