How can I block adimpact.com?

[alfredo]

I want to keep their ads from infesting my desktop.

[moggie]

1. Are these popup ads?

Safari, Firefox and Camino can all block popup windows.

A very useful addon available for Firefox is Adblock Plus. In conjunction with a filter subscription, this will make most ads go away: I use it with the EasyList subscription. I don't know whether EasyList will block adimpact.com, but even if it can't, it's easy to tell Adblock Plus to add a filter: right-click on the offending image and select "Adblock Image" from the menu.

Camino now has built-in ad blocking. I can't say how well it works, since I haven't used Camino for a while.

There are several blockers available for Safari: see pimpmysafari.com. A lot of people like the Pith Helmet plugin.

[alfredo]

2. I saw that a new type of pop up is being deployed that defeats

ad blockers. I just wanted to know what to do if it becomes a problem. I do get pop unders in Safari, but not pop ups.

[struggle4progress]

3. Not sure but this may contain a hint:

... DHTML popups ... are not regular windows controlled by your GUI operating system component; in fact it is pure HTML controlled by the browser via JavaScript ... These popups can be enhanced as to be displayed at a certain moment, to be movable within the browser window like a regular dialog box, to appear through a drop-down effect or to slide in and much more ... http://dhtmlpopups.webarticles.org/

So it sounds to me like you could just disable JavaScript for most browsing if they became a nuisance. If you're using Opera, you can include an "Enable JavaScript" checkbox in a toolbar, run without JavaScript most of the time, and enable it when necessary. I'm not sure, but I think I've seen some of these: netflix pop-ups are getting past my pop-up blocker and opening pop-ups quietly in new tabs; also I'm seeing some moveable pop-ups inside some webpages I visit; this is mostly minor inconvenience stuff, not grand annoyance

[alfredo]

4. I ought to play around with Opera again. It's a good browser.

[struggle4progress]

5. It's good for heavy browsing. For other purposes, there may be better browsers

[alfredo]

6. Just tried it. Not bad at all. I've been playing with Sunrise some. It's nice.

[struggle4progress]

7. If you're going to browse with twenty or thirty tabs open, Opera will let you

wrap the tabs to multiple lines, which is much more convenient than scrolling through a long list of open tabs

RIGHT click on the bar and choose customize: you can operate in really stripped down mode or you can keep lots of icons and actions in sight

Webpages will typically load faster if you don't load images -- but you can keep an icon in sight that allows you to turn on image-loading for the current tab (and its progeny) without loading images in all the other tabs

[alfredo]

8. Opera has been one of the best kept secrets in the browser market.