Even though the ad doesn't pop up, it doesn't mean the damage hasn't been done. Have you checked your cookies with this? BEFORE you go to your site, clear all your cookies. Then right after you went to your site where zango used to pop, check your cookies again.

If everything looks fine, you have a solution. For now. Until zango reads this and finds a way around it. If your cookie still gets overwritten, then it's back to the drawing board.

Missie

Hi missie It does not stop the zango popup all it does is tell zango there is already a popup on that page so zango does not send the user a popup otherwise it would make zango look bad )zango only seems to popup on pages that have no popups)

Still, check your cookies. Just because the ad doesn't pop, it doesn't mean it does no damage to your income. The only way to know for sure is to check cookies.

The fact that the ad doesn't pop up means NOTHING with zango. I don't know how the backend works for zango advetisers or how "ethical" zango is in its own sick ways, but even if the ad doesn't get shown because of another popup doesn't mean the advertiser doesn't get charged for the "click" or impression, or that the cookie didn't get overwritten anyway.

I don't mean to be negative about your solution, hell the more solutions people can come up with the better as far as I'm concerned. The more you give these scums to work around... I just don't want anyone to think the problem is solved when the truth could be that the problem just became invisible due to no popup ads.

Missie

Kill the zango

thats so evil i bet they do that

Well we will never know without more people testing it and posting their results *cough* hint *cough* :winkwink:

Of course if this is effective Zango will be hard at work on a fix. However if this lasts a week or three months it will be a positive thing and should encourage others to develop even better solutions along these lines that are harder to get around and don't involve blocking surfers or making them jump thru' hoops. :thumbsup

thats good to see if it works, but i doubt they still overwrite your cookie, as the only way for it overwrite your cookies is by popping the site up, zango doesn't actually overwrite cookies, but the site its popping over yours is whats doing it, so if you don't get the pop, your cookie doesn't get overwritten either

well put Madrox thats what I meant to say

bump :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

Killing ZANGO slowly but surely.

50................

Not with 180 you don't.

See Ben's explanations on this here:

http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/18...liates/#silent

Missie

yes but missie you are missing the point Zango does not send out the popup because of this script. The script does not block the popup, Zango decide not to send it

Bump for an awesome solution

I DO understand what you're saying. :)

Zango may decide not to SHOW an ad, but what about zango advertisers that chose NOT to in the first place? The iframe is NOT a popup, it's totally invisible to the surfer. Is that considered a popup? I wouldn't think so. There could be a dozen ads from other adware on the same page but zango does NOT have to pop its own ad, it can stuff cookies with an invisible iframe.

We need someone who has or had a zango account to tell us how it works.

Tampa... you're the closest thing we have. If you have an account, spill the beans. :)

Missie

Ok I understand what you are saying I tested it out and there was no change to the cookies after refreshing my page 30 times, That was a good point I am sorry I did not understand what you meant at first

Ok, if cookies were not overwritten, your script works. For now. :) Check often because guaranteed zango will find ways around it. If they don't already have a solution for it. They're a lot more proactive than reactive and they have solutions to problems that don't even exist yet or no one has thought of.

Missie

ah i understand what you mean now missie, sorry :D

zango is probably working on a solution right now, every one of those fuckers probably lurk gfy

thanks for that script... works wonders!
You are a fucking genius!

By preventing the pop in the first place, it also seems to work against sites that track sales by url not cookie :thumbsup

Well the board has been down a few days and loading slowly.

Go post this on other boards and Tell Xbiz to put it in a newsletter.

Thanks for your nice comments guys I just hope this solution lasts a little while

OK maybe I'm being stupid here, BUT.

Would it only make a difference if the over written cookie was on the site the surfer was going to?

Say someone bought the word TEENS, the surfer landed on my page and the pop up was blocked, it would not make much point to over writing a cookie that did not relate to my site.

Or is Zango all about stealing surfer to me by another of my affiliates. Or me?

Can someone check my paysite please. Well all the sites would be nice. :winkwink:

www.paulmarkhamteens.com

www.paulmarkham.com

www.bargainbasementcontent.com

the popup is not blocker by the popup blocker the only popup that is blocked is the one from google.com but as zango only popup on pages with no popups and never popup on google their software is tricked into thinking that the user has already had a popup so it decides not to send one I think what missie was trying to say was did it affect your cookies in any way answear was no. I am pretty sure you will get zango popups on the domain
www.paulmarkhamteens.com not sure about the others also I think zango extracts info from the meta of pages too but I am not entirely sure

Sorry, but that's not true. Zango will pop anywhere over any site from any source if the keywords or URL's are targeted, INCLUDING Google SERPS and Adwords and ALL other search engines as well.

Unless you meant google.com/ca/uk/au/etc.?

Missie

yes I meant google.com

Will talk to my programmers about putting up your script, I don't see a problem at the moment with any affiliate leaping up in sign ups over the other affiliates loss and do not see sign ups suffering. But anything to stop this is good IMhumbleO.

Bump for you :P

I got a Zango pop a couple times for Discover card :error on your join page for the teens site. Nothing on the main page in about 10 refreshes.

Thanks for that. Don't see any problem from Discovery Card when someone is about to join a porn site. Best to snuff it out before it becomes a problem.

If you think porn is bad for this stuff, you should try mainstream! Now THAT is fun. :mad: Only a handful allow adult ads but they all allow "clean" ads.

Missie

Yeah it seems deeply embedded in mainstream from what I've seen.

It's quite funny what comes up especially in the toolbar tabs. Even if all adult sponsors were removed from Zango, I'm sure some of our surfers would still get distracted or annoyed enough to close all windows thinking the pop was from our site and we would lose the sale that way, rather than to another Adult sponsor.

Has this been confirmed to work? We'd just need to add it to all of our pages?

well works for me and everyone else who tested it

kill zango:mad:

bum bump

nice, does this still count the clicks from Advertisers with Zango if the pop-up is requested?

no it will not count clicks from advertisers

nice work :thumbsup

bump!!!!