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Pop-up Killer Review

 
 

Last updated: Sep 9, 2005



A quote from GoGoData Toolbar's site:

GoGoData Toolbar Blocks:

* standard web popup ads
* webmsg dialog popups
* clickthrough-style popups
* most banner ads
* Flash animated ads
* Chat login popups
* Optional protection against adware style popups
* Constantly updated as new popup types emerge!


My notes:
Sometimes IE freezed with this program.
I do not understand - is it free? See the quote below:
GoGoData Toolbar, *3.01* now available!
Last Updated: 25 February, 2005, 10:51 GMT

Feb. 25 - GoGoData Software will no longer be free:
After spending over $100,000 on software development with no return income to speak of, its clear that our freeware model is not working...so with our mounting bills and no more funding from our parent company, its make or break time for the GoGoData toolbar and hence, there will be no more free versions of the GoGoData Toolbar.

This may not be all bad, because if we can actually generate enough income to keep working on it, there are some features we would not have been able to add under the freeware model which was attempting to earn revenue via search traffic.


Test results:
Accept Useful New Windows: Simple examples. (2 points)
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked
 A new window appears after the "Open in New Window" menu item has been clicked
 A new window appears after a button has been clicked
 Popup windows at https- and edu- sites
Accept Useful New Windows: Sophisticated examples. New Window looks like Popup - popup killer should not confuse them. (1 point)
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked and the parent page was refreshed simultaneously
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked and the parent page was closed simultaneously
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked and some dialogue has been shown

Stop Popup ads: Simple examples. (2 points)
 Ordinary OnLoad Popup
 Ordinary OnQuit Popup
 Ordinary Delayed Popup
 Delayed Synthesized Popup
 Delayed Modeless Dialog Popup
 Adware Popup
 Camouflaged Popup
 Windowless Flash
 InVue Popup
 Interstitials
Stop Popup ads: Sophisticated examples. Popups looks like Clicked New Windows - popup killer should not confuse them. (1 point)
 There is a page with an OnLoad Popup and a link to reload itself. The OnLoad Popup appears after the reload link has been clicked
 There is a page with an OnQuit Popup and a link to reload itself. OnQuit Popup appears after the reload link has been clicked

GoGoData Toolbar is detected by simple popup killer detector


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