How many more days/weeks we gotta suffer it?
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God I feel better for that.
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You won't be able to move for pop up windows once HJ gets used to his gilded sybaritic advert financed lifestyle. Stretch limo, young busty blond chauffeuse, gold teeth and ear ring ...
(For the irony challenged, the above is not completely serious.)
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Small price to pay for a "free" quality website.
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Deviating only slightly, is it possible to stop popups (Back Room popups excluded, of course !!) from popping up, and if so how do you do it.
Generally speaking, they do my head in. I'm wearing out my mouse left button by continually getting rid of them !!
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It's either pop-ups, ads and paid-for links or no site at all.
HJ
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It's either pop-ups, ads and paid-for links or no site at all. HJ
Thanks HJ. Or no commercial sites at all, I guess. I thought that that might be the case.
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I have often wondered how this site is funded. Sometimes the moderators point out that it is a commercial site yet it is remarkably free of adverts etc. I for one have no objection to the odd pop up if it helps keep the site going. Funnily enough though I have only seen the MotorShow ticket comp pop up once. Does it stop appearing once you have entered the comp?
I think this is a brilliant website and is one of the few that I look at regularly.
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alt-f4 also closes them.
This has been raised before here. You could try www.panicware.com who have a free pop up stopper but I don't know how effective it is.
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Okay, fine. Delete the pop-up, delete a source of income for the site, help to kill the site. Smokie's suggestion is the last thing I need.
HJ
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Sorry, didn't intend it like that. Just responding to a question. I won't mind if the response is deleted.
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To be fair, I really don't like these pop ups but seeing as I use this site probably more than any other than Hotmail and www.nufc.com, and pay absolutely nothing towards it I'm quite happy to put up with them if they help raise a few pounds towards what are quite probably high running costs for the site.
Small price to pay, say I.
Lee.
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Some other sites that I visit also have annoying pop up windows, BUT incorporated within that pop up window is an icon that says "click here if you don't wish to see this again" Just a suggestion to put to your web programs HJ.
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Apart from the effect on HJ's income I have found another problem with these pop up stoppers.
When installed they prevent me from accessing my bank account. Presumably this is because it alters the security settings or whatever it is called in computer speak; so I delete the pop up stoppers.
Anyway I really enjoy pop up windows that appear on this site and send details to all my friends - they are really happy to get them. Now let me see which Ferrari I will use tonight to take out Jennifer Lopez - or would she prefer a Porsche?
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>>Anyway I really enjoy pop up windows that appear on this site and send details to all my friends - they are really happy to get them. Now let me see which Ferrari I will use tonight to take out Jennifer Lopez - or would she prefer a Porsche?
Cardew,
I think you're seeing a different type of pop-up to the rest of us.....me anyway!
;-)
David W
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Why am I being left out. There are no pop ups on my screen on HJ's site. I get the ones that appear on the D.Torygraph.???
Phil I
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I am in the same boat (or should that be car?) as Phil I in that I do not seem to get any pop-ups from the HJ site. I get them from other sites but not HJ's and I don't have any pop-up prevention software.
Perhaps the pop-ups only appear to users who have hidden their profile??? eh, Phil? ;-)
*ducking down to avoid hail of bullets...*
CMark
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It appears if you spend time on the home page.
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Ah now I see how it comes about. My bookmark is for the back room so jumps over the home page.
It would not hurt anyone if we all logged on to Jaguars site from HJ's link - maybe two or three times a week. It would give him brownie points with advertiser and could then perhaps generate interest from other sites producing more revenue for hard up HJ.
Happy Motoring and clicking on this occasion Phil I
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This is the only forum on any topic I have ever returned to - most of them are complete rubbish, no matter what the subject is. If pop-ups help keep it going, it's a small price to pay.
'Stead of moaning, why not have a go and try to win some tickets?
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I'm already in...how many times can we enter?
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smokie you can have my go as I will be out of the country during motorshow time
The pop up(s) (such as they are) small price to pay on HJ's site, best on t'web.
Is there somewhere we can nominate this?
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Thanks, Tom.
HJ
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I agree that this is an excellent site. I've posted several questions here, and received informative answers, many of which have contradicted my own musings and forced me to change my mind on an issue.
If you object to the adverts, just think about ITV and C4 which have regular enforced 2 minute breaks.
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hehe - don't give HJ any ideas...
Imagine the site with a "papa ... nicole' advert as a pop-up!
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Quality site gentlemen(And ladies) it makes me laugh....and live longer.
Simon T.
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If you really hate pop-up windows, then buy some pop-up window terminator software. See the following link:
www.panicware.com/index.html
Taken from the following thread in this forum:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=5506
(Wonder if this software reduces the advertising revenue from pop-up windows? Hope not.)
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I don't think HJ will be pleased with you! (see his post on Sat 21 Sep 02 @ 17:16)
If you go to Parkers site or the 4car site, you will be bombarded with pop ups. I reckon we're getting off lightly.
btw - Hopefully you've all been so enraged by the Motorshow ad that you've forgotten to actually enter, therefore increasing my chances of a winning ticket!
CavV6 and cavWeb fan.
www.cavweb.co.uk
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Leif's sentence for this terrible transgression is to use the links in the news to go to every site in this week's brilliant bargains, then buy at least one car. I don;t car where the income comes from, just as long as enough of it comes in to keep the site, my investor, Stephen, Martyn and me alive
HJ
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just as long as enough of it comes in to keep the site, my investor, Stephen, Martyn and me alive
...and I'm guessing the four of you have expensive tastes.
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Parp, Parp!
Note: All Toad posts come with an implied smiley.
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Not really, all we want to do is earn a reasonable living by getting paid for something that is obviously worthwhile instead of working for nothing (in my case) or practically nothing (in Stephen and Martyn's cases). Also, my investor would like a return on his investment of something like £30k so far.
HJ
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How does the jag popup make the money for you? (So I can help)
Do I need to register on their site? (I think you do to get the answer)
It's just that with most links I notice the "redirected from honestjohn.co.uk" (or garble to that effect) yet that doesn't appear for the jag link.
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Please just use the links to link. We have a counter so we know how many went where.
HJ
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On me way, then...............
Cold showers kill pop ups.
I know these things.....................
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Not really, all we want to do is earn a reasonable living by getting paid for something that is obviously worthwhile instead of working for nothing (in my case) or practically nothing (in Stephen and Martyn's cases). Also, my investor would like a return on his investment of something like £30k so far.
Calm down! I was trying to be funny!
..and I bought your book!
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Parp, Parp!
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Buying my book earned me between 10p and 50p.
HJ
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Buying my book earned me between 10p and 50p.
Cool. What did you do with the cash?
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Parp, Parp!
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Buying my book earned me between 10p and 50p. HJ
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BrillianT!
Just go out and buy 1000 of them, and you can pocket 500 quid towards your next holiday! YKIMS!
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>> Buying my book earned me between 10p and 50p. >> >> HJ >> BrillianT! Just go out and buy 1000 of them, and you can pocket 500 quid towards your next holiday! YKIMS!
And you'll have something to read while you're there! It's a plan with no drawbacks!
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Parp, Parp!
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Ah, this is quite a problem. Take it from one who knows, there's no quick money in books (certainly not enough to live on), unless you hit on a fastseller, and that's highly unlikely, especially in a small, crowded market like motoring. Just as an example, several of the Booker Prize nominees last year had sold only around 1000 hardback copies before the week of the prize ceremony. Obviously the winner sold more than that later, but still not many in the great scheme of things. The fastest-selling paperback of 2001, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, sold 1.8 million copies in July of that year. But most books, especially non-fiction hardbacks, sell over a long period of time. If they stay in print, that's how HJ will recoup the effort taken in writing them. However, what HJ's books are good for right now in commercial terms is publicity, for this site, for his newspaper column(s), and for the HJ "brand" in general.
Chris
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