Annoying websites

Anonymous · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 21.29

Doesn't it annoy you when you click on this website link and then it wants you to download something you don't know

DJGM · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 21.55

That's what you get when you access websites that takes malicious advantage of ActiveX controls in IE . . .

There are other browsers that aren't prone to this sort of thing, y'know . . . !

Chris · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 22.44

Barrett wrote:Doesn't it annoy you when you click on this website link and then it wants you to download something you don't know

Click no. Shut window. Job done.

Cheese Head · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 23.10

When your trying to get certain numbers of the internet, it takes 5 clicks to get rid of 'em. Well, in IE anyway. God bless Mozilla.

cdd · Wed 09 Jun, 2004 13.37

I find some websites annoying too.

Anonymous · Wed 09 Jun, 2004 14.37

Is there a way to turn off the Active X controls??

Pete · Wed 09 Jun, 2004 16.10

The problem is all IE plugins are now activex controls.

You can have a play around in your security settings panel. Otherwise wait for SP2 which should get shot of this annoyance.

DJGM · Wed 09 Jun, 2004 17.08

The legal music download site - bignoisemusic.com - is particularly annoying . . .

DJGM · Wed 09 Jun, 2004 23.52

In case anyone's been wondering why I find bignoisemusic.com an annoying website . . .

It's not just the fact that the site blocks proper web browsers, but also the fact that it's Windows only.
Since bignoisemusic.com is helping to fund Oxfam, these extremely stupid software requirements for
the site means that a worthy charity like Oxfam will be potentially missing out on essential funding.

IMHO, that is just totally unacceptable, and by law, should not be allowed.

Anonymous · Thu 10 Jun, 2004 09.57

DJGM wrote:In case anyone's been wondering why I find bignoisemusic.com an annoying website . . .

It's not just the fact that the site blocks proper web browsers, but also the fact that it's Windows only.
Since bignoisemusic.com is helping to fund Oxfam, these extremely stupid software requirements for
the site means that a worthy charity like Oxfam will be potentially missing out on essential funding.

IMHO, that is just totally unacceptable, and by law, should not be allowed.

Oh right, Even though you use IE as well it didn't work.

Thats a bit silly of bignoisemusic.com :roll:

DJGM · Thu 10 Jun, 2004 12.27

It was the Mac version of IE5, which I do use occasionally on my iMac (but mostly Mozilla) since
it's many magnitudes betterthan it's buggy and dangerously insecure counterpart on Windows.