About.com pushing errorsafe?

[jeroen.wijnands@gmail.com]

You wouldn't expect this from a company like about.com but it seems to
be true.

I was visiting
http://scifi.about.com/od/merchandis...for_XFiles.htm
and suddenly I found the well known popup.

Quick trawl trough the source at I suspect this script:
http://an.tacoda.net/an/11775/slf.js

This in turn seems to handle the popup window.

I know that companies like tacoda, doubleclick and all the others
absolutely don't give a **** what kind of banners they publish but
somehow I'd expect differently from a company like about.com.

[Slarty]

On 9 Dec 2006 02:15:42 -0800, jeroen.wijnands@gmail.com wrote:

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>
> You wouldn't expect this from a company like about.com but it seems to
> be true.
>
> I was visiting
> http://scifi.about.com/od/merchandis...for_XFiles.htm
> and suddenly I found the well known popup.

And are you also saying that this happened whilst browsing with Firefox
2.0?

Cheers,

Roy

[jeroen.wijnands@gmail.com]

Slarty wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2006 02:15:42 -0800, jeroen.wijnands@gmail.com wrote:
>
> And are you also saying that this happened whilst browsing with Firefox
> 2.0?
>
'fraid so. Of course tacoda and errorsafe are now in the adblocker
blacklist but yes, it did happen.

With firefox you don't get more than a popup but it's still annoying
enough.

[Slarty]

On 11 Dec 2006 00:44:09 -0800, jeroen.wijnands@gmail.com wrote:

>> And are you also saying that this happened whilst browsing with Firefox
>> 2.0?
>>
> 'fraid so. Of course tacoda and errorsafe are now in the adblocker
> blacklist but yes, it did happen.
>
> With firefox you don't get more than a popup but it's still annoying
> enough.

I've never seen one with v.2.0, and seldom ever with previous versions
either. It could of course depend upon which addons have been installed.

But thanks for the reply, I shall take it as a warning not to be too
complacent.

Cheers,

Roy

[Charani]

On 11 Dec 2006 00:44:09 -0800, jeroen.wijnands@gmail.com wrote:

> 'fraid so. Of course tacoda and errorsafe are now in the adblocker
> blacklist but yes, it did happen.
>
> With firefox you don't get more than a popup but it's still annoying
> enough.

I tried your link and had no pop ups or intrusions of any sort. Do
you have the pop up blocker enabled?