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#1
Nov 07, 2007, 06:01 PM
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I keep getting a pop up for a survey, I was wondering is this psychcentral sponsered or am I getting junk?
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Nov 07, 2007, 06:05 PM
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i too have had this happen a couple of times to me
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Nov 07, 2007, 07:07 PM
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PC does a more-or-less annual, completely voluntary survey to see what members are thinking about various features and what can be improved. You can set your popup blocker to ignore it, I'm sure.
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#4
Nov 07, 2007, 07:28 PM
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I am mostly just curios. If its PC sponsered than I will do it but if its just junk then I wont
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Nov 07, 2007, 07:40 PM
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It got passed my pop up blocker today. Pop ups annoy me. I just closed it immediately; didn't realize it was a pc survey.
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Nov 07, 2007, 09:45 PM
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I responded and it turned into a thing about vitamins! Look at surveys and if they aren't "interesting" to you, just "X" out of them/close that window. Just because it is/is not from PC doesn't mean you have to answer them!
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Nov 08, 2007, 01:23 AM
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I asked DocJohn about this one and he assured me it is allowed.
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Nov 08, 2007, 02:34 AM
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But why does it pop-up despite having a pop-up blocker?
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Nov 08, 2007, 01:08 PM
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Its a sly one, it is.
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Nov 08, 2007, 01:17 PM
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Twice tonight I have had a blank page pop up - it says ad-server (or something like that) right at the top but nothing actually happens!
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Nov 08, 2007, 01:59 PM
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These things are becoming a downright nuisence. I have just had one for "OpinionMart".
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Nov 08, 2007, 08:42 PM
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Ok, what DocJohn told me is this, that they are allowed to run as pop ups: "they help provide better information to our marketing team."
It's a nuisance I think I can bear (for a while anyway  ) to help Psych Central and DocJohn bring us this great site!  I answered the OpinionMart one, thinking it might not hit me again now?  yeah, right.
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Nov 08, 2007, 09:52 PM
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So what you are saying is the pop-ups are "attached" to the cookies used to uniquely identify us on this site, and they have the power to override our popup blockers because we allow the identification cookie from psychcentral?
Is there an opt out option? or are we just gonna have to put up with the unwanted targeted advertising? |
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Nov 08, 2007, 10:27 PM
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I don't think they're attached to cookies; I had one for vitamins the other day; started to do it before it made it clear that it wanted me to named all the vitamins I'd ever heard of and I wasn't in the mood :-) If you don't want to answer it just close it. I feel it's like when my mouse is accidentally on a link and I get whisked off to an idiot aromatherapy school :-) or something.
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Nov 09, 2007, 12:10 PM
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IDK either if they are attached to cookies, that would be something to know. To me, THAT would be a great marketing tool that I would "fall" for... knowing that if I take the survey the first time it comes up, I won't have to take it again???? However, would that just slot me for the next one in queue and not give me a few days/weeks of break from the popups? Like I said, I don't know, but it is interesting.
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Nov 12, 2007, 05:26 PM
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this is what wikipedia says about ad servers... ad servers ...
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Nov 12, 2007, 10:36 PM
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well, answering the survey stopped it from popping up!
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Nov 21, 2007, 12:30 AM
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isn't that weird ? we never get pop-ups !!! there is an option in your profile now to "block most ads" whatever that means, & we ticked it & the pop-ups all went away 
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Nov 21, 2007, 11:22 AM
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Yeah, I dont get them either...but mainly because I have a popup blocker...but sometimes when my internet has a billion different tabs open, the "you've got PMs" popup will popup, but nothing else...
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Dec 29, 2007, 07:12 PM
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bump for those complaining about it, in the general forum
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Dec 30, 2007, 12:14 PM
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There's a poll in General. Please vote and if I find enough of the community wants it to go away, it will be removed.
Thanks, DocJohn
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