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I know I'm like the only person in the world who cares about this but I quit Netflix the moment I saw they used pop-unders for advertising. People used to be s
by greggman 14y ago
I know I'm like the only person in the world who cares about this but I quit Netflix the moment I saw they used pop-unders for advertising.
People used to be screaming at all the popups and popunders in the early 2000s. People stopped screaming because adblockers and customer complaints in general end up getting rid of them.......except for Netflix! WTF!
They still use them. Saw a few this week, and I still won't support Netflix because of it.
Personally, I think as a geek, you shouldn't support them either.
- recursive 14y agoI've never seen a pop-under ad on netflix. I've never seen any advertising on netflix. You may have some malware or something.
- andrewljohnson 14y agoSame thought...
- tantalor 14y agogreggman is referring to Netflix pop-unders on 3rd-party sites.
- jedberg 14y agoI think you have some malware. As far as I know Netflix doesn't use popunders or overs.
- dchuk 14y agothere's a good chance those are ads being run by affiliates. I've seen them a bunch, it's actually impressive how they can circumvent most popup blocking technology
- TheHegemon 14y agoYou're most likely mistaken. Netflix probably has no idea about the popunders, as it's most likely a third-party affiliate site doing something against the TOS. If you report them to Netflix I'm sure they'll be glad to shut down that affiliate's account. Either that or you got malware.
- greggman 14y agoThe only legit companies I've seen use popunders in the last 5 years are (1) Netflix (2) American Express. There must be something those 2 companies are doing as it's specific to them and them only.