On 3 Oct 99 11:49am, Steve McCrystal wrote to George Fliger:

 SM> ;
 SM> In a msg of , George Fliger writes to
 SM> Bas Heijermans: ;
 SM> 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.

 SM> The Castlewood Systems site used to do that, too, and it isn't
 SM> a porn site! :^) Apparently enough people complained that they
 SM> change the code to fix it. It really was excessively annoying!

I'm running into more and more sites that require Javascript enabled in
order to just browse their site.  Very annoying indeed!

George


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