It’s Nothing Personal, Just Business
April 30th, 2002 - 12:50 am
To the person who wrote (with a bad email address) and asked — yes, I have been ignoring National Review Online.
When they get rid of the pop-up ads, I’ll start directing my meager traffic there again. Also, their new look just really turns me off.
Hurry, Jonah — all I get to read of Vic Hanson is InstaPundit outtakes.
Have you tried one of the pop-up killers?? Panicware.com has a pretty good free one called popup stopper. I’ve been *much* happier surfing onto NROs site since I discovered this.
Just a suggestion!
I haven’t been getting pop-ups there at all.
“InstaPundit outtakes?”
I don’t do outtakes. I do highlights. Vic is saving the outtakes for the hilarious “NRO Bloopers” reel he’ll show at NRO conventions around the country.
You’ll visit OpinionJournal but not NRO? OpinionJournal has to be one of the ugliest sites around, and they’re littered with ads and sometimes pop-unders/overs/ups/whatever.
VDH is one of my heroes. I’m majoring in History, with a concentration in Military History, and I absolutely love reading his stuff.
I like NRO’s old look. I have not visited there much because of the New Look, which I describe as follows: “My eyes! The pain!”
It also seems to me that they had more interesting articles before they did the makeover, but then maybe I’ve just been too busy.
Personally, I like the new NRO look. Granted, I’m an idiot, but that’s beside the point.
I have to admit some initial skepticism about the new NRO, but after a while I’ve really gotten used to it, and I’ve found it a little easier to use and better looking than the old version.
As for the popup ads, Mozilla lets you prevent sites from opening up popup windows that you don’t specifically request. It’s under Preferences/Advanced/Scripts and Windows. I highly recommend checking out on of the release candidate builds of Mozilla… I’ve been using it as my day-to-day browser for months now and haven’t had any problems.
StrategyPage is far worse, and you link to them.
OK, I use Norton’s ad-killer to block most pop-ups. Works like a charm, even on StrategyPage.
But whatever script it is that NRO uses, it slips by Norton. And I can’t seem to fix it without setting my security levels so high as to use a lot of usefull features.
So NRO will have to survive without me. I’m sure they’ll do just fine.