what are those popups that get past the blockers?

[oast]

Bear in mind that a lot of these 'fake' pop-ups require the use of Javascript.
If your users know what you are up to and turn off (or block Javascript) at your site, it may affect other aspects of your site.

In my experience pop-ups have a worse reputation than traditional banners... the sooner sites stop using them, the sooner more surfers will re-enable Javascript and be able to experience some very 'clever' sites to their full extent.

Just my 2c

Steve

[MrYum]

I'm with Oast on this one.

If someone has specifically taken measures to avoid popups...I would think popping consoles on em anyway would be a great way to alienate your traffic and make sure they don't buy anything. And perhaps more importantly, ensure they don't come back because they're not going to trust a site that obviously did something shady to defeat their blocker.

If the days of trapping and/or tricking the surfer into buying aren't already over, they will be very soon. Hope so anyway...I'd much rather offer the surfer a product to get his juices flowing and make him downright grateful for the experience he's had on my sites

[tickler]

Originally Posted by oast

... the sooner more surfers will re-enable Javascript and be able to experience some very 'clever' sites to their full extent.
Steve

Originally Posted by MrYum

I'm with Oast on this one.

...I'd much rather offer the surfer a product to get his juices flowing and make him downright grateful for the experience he's had on my sites

Yeah I have some things that pop little windows as the surfers mouse-over different links. They seem to love these little easter eggs.