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Sky Render on 17 March 2008

Suddenly VG Chartz is spawning pop-under ads every single time I try to load any page on it. Even with Pop-Ups Must Die enabled, it's still really freaking annoying. Methinks d3.zeno.com needs a few pointers on being less malicious in advertising...

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dsoverpsp on 17 March 2008

yeah - i get so many pop-ups - even with numerous popup blockers

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pichu_pichu on 17 March 2008

yeah, I just had that pop up 10 minutes ago,every page Norton 360 was warning me about pop ups and it was getting annoying

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cool48 on 17 March 2008

I get a shit load of Pacific poker and partypoker ads.

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rendo on 17 March 2008

I get none. Adblock + Noscript = none. Waste of bandwidth. :/

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