Expedia pop-up
 

I have been increasingly irritated by an Expedia pop up everytime I clicked on a thread on this board for about a week. I had to just wait for it to go away, no close box. Anyway, today it is gone! Hope this is forever!

It is annoying and it's still there.

Me tto! All these pop ups are ruining my net surfing! I vowed I would NEVER click on these annoying pains in the rear! Anybody have any solutions?

It's awful!

Judyrem,

My solution was the same as yours. I never do business at a firm that uses popup ads and I don't link to websites that have them.

But if you switch to Netscape 7.1 as your browser, you can set it to block popups and then just easily allow then at sites where they are needed.

Keith

And I was thinking that it is a "roll-over", not a pop-up - - subtle distinction, one might easily argue... and just as annoying, as it is difficult to avoid "rolling over it".

Best wishes,

Rex

I would second Keith's notion...switch to a new version of Netscape (or even better) to Mozilla which Netscape is based on. They got an excellent pop-up blocker as well as lots of other nifty features.
www.mozilla.org or www.netscape.com

Cobos

Rex- "roll-over", not a "pop-up" Yeah, it does sort of roll in, not pop. There is an even worst one about a spy camera. Even if you click the X to close, it goes on for about 4 more. I would like to think THAT is illegal. So, enough complaining, it's free.

Yes, it's not a pop-up that pop-up stoppers stop. It certainly is annoying, though.

yes, it's particularly annoying because you can't close it, you just have to wait for it to go away

Don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but it does help pay the bills for our forum here

Just click to thte right of it ..where you can just bearly see the jump to the last post and it disappears.

It might not help, but I would write Expedia about your annoyance (and I share it and I have used them in the past) and tell them they are losing business.

My Norton Internet Security and Antivirus program includes a banner/pop up stopper that , so far , has banished the Expedia ad you are talking about.
I truly dislike pop ups and if I had to look at one every time I clicked a thread, I would be more than annoyed.
But I see Elaine's point about ads helping to keep the Forums available to us.
I guess if I HAD to I could handle a banner ad that appeared ONE time when I first accessed the Forum site .

I get such a kick out of this forum...I share your sentiments about the "Roll-Over"!

Well, the ad is enough to keep me from trying Expedia again. I gave up on checking them quite a while ago because they *never* had the best value for anything I was interested in. This type of ad makes me think they are getting desperate.

Anyway, if it hangs around much longer I may quit using this site entirely. Noxious ad techniques will only persist if we let them. It may be time to move on to a different board.

cur...
Oh yeah, sure, WHERE?

It bugs me too, but I think it's what allows us to have this forum for free.

I am sure that their advertising pays for this site, but that pop up is annoying! I'm not what they thought it would accomplish, but so far I think it has only ticked people off.

My freebie download 'popupstopper' works to prevent this 'pop down?' on my home pc.

It does however slow down loading because as always the site is geared to download the ads before the content.

I have given up surfing at the office between jobs because of this 'feature' and the fact that I am not allowed to mess with the settings at the office.

The upshot is that I only check in occasionaly when at home rather than when I am at the office.

If Fodors aim is to reduce traffic on the site, they are succeding with me.

It's there, again. Sorry, just had to vent.

At least the Royal Carribean pop-up has a "Close" button you can click on.

The most annoying thing about that pop-up was the way it interrupted a post I was entering. I say "was" because I got rid of it by using a feature of Zone Alarm.

It's driving me doolally (er?).

I don't blame Expedia. This is down to Fodors. I understand the need for advertising but.........

There are other ways for Expedia to advertise here. This pop-up is simply annoying !

No way will I buy anything from Expedia !

The pop-up is maddening. Wish it would go away !

I had a pop-up from VIP flights fill up my entire screen while I was on Expedia and had just clicked to complete a flight transaction. There was no way to x out of the screen and I had no idea if the transaction had gone through. Had to end up calling Expedia. So aggravating!

Count me in: I agree that the pop-up is more than annoying. Now we cannot close it at will like before. I can't read the post until it clears out.

I have had it with the stupid pop up ads. I had to log back in for some reason tonight and I couldn't even do that until expedia got out of my face. I don't know about you, but they haven't made any points with me this month!

grace, if you ever have a full screen window again that you can't x out of, this should work if you are using a windows PC. Hold your ALT key down and press the tab key. You'll see a pop up box showing you your open programs and let you choose which one you wish to go to.

I've never had popups on Fodors. I use Netscape. Perhaps that's the reason. I do get popups with the NY Times though.

Son of a gun! I logged in on Netscape and not one pop-up the entire time I've been on the site. Good news. Thanks Sal B.

Add American Express to the list of transgressors.
If I knew a phone number or e-mail address of someone (not a flunky, but a wheel) who would listen to the purchase=avoidance action these popups beget, I would use it (as would others). Don't you techies out there know how to find such things?

The hilarious thing is that just a minute ago I clicked on the Expedia banner . . took me to a webpage that said in bold letters:

This offer is no longer available.

What an advertising ploy! ! !

Rich

If you download the Google toolbar and set up the pop-up blocker you won't see this pop-up

Expedia isn't making any fans here either.

DH's computer isn't as hi-tech as the one I use, and it was a pain the other night when I was Fodoring on it. I will have to pass the tips on to him. Thanks!

Right! That's it! I've had it! the bloody thing keeps interrupting me when I'm typing. It's got to go!!

I'm using MSN to access Fodors, and I get the Expedia pop-up almost every time. I do have a Pop-Up Blocker, but this is the ONLY pop-up it isn't blocking.

I'm running out of patience with this pop-up. I thought I could wait it out and it would magically disappear. We're talking months now. Fooled me.

I've found that for some reason, when I use Netscape 7.1 I don't get the annoying Expedia "roll-over" ad. No Spiderman thingy either. However, when I try to post, I get a blank page instead of the page that lets me log in and write a reply.

If I use IE (with the Google toolbar as a popup blocker) I get the horrible Expedia ads and also Spiderman. But, I can post. So, for now I'll just use Netscape unless I have something to say. (which doesn't happen very often!)

I hope that all of you who are annoyed with these rollover ads let Expedia and Fodors know what a pain they are. I realize that ads are a necessary evil, but they can try to keep the annoyances to a mininum.

No Expedia or Spiderman here (yet), but that Northwest plane that takes off across the top of <b>EVERY</b> page is driving me nuts! ENOUGH ALREADY!

I just saw the Spiderman one. Like I want a big, ugly spider web on my screen. There's advertising and then there's just plain stupidity. Personally, I will avoid Expedia and am getting so I don't want to use this site as much either.

Try adaware.com. I mentioned the *rollover* problem to my husband and he seems to have fixed it...although I have to admit, I won't be surprised to find that expedia or fodors will find a way to circumvent this. Adaware.com takes a few minutes to download--time well spent, I would say!