DataBlocks?

[ducktape]

I have always been a critic of datablocks. They offer a great service. But they have been bought again. I do believe they were bought once or twice before. They are no longer ad free either. They new owners????? have decided to place pop ups on users pages. They charge a fee that has yet to be announced to have the ads removed. They say that there is new and exciting things coming in the near future??????

[Canuckkev]

Hmm..you say Datablocks has pop ups? I think not. Well, I found out that when you access a Datablocks page in the TOP frame, a pop up pops up. But, when you load the page in a frame, for example with stealth redirection, there isn't a pop up. Pretty strange, but try it out.

[voidparanoid]

So, what exactly is that?

[Cracker]

The reason Datablocks' pop-ups don't show is because, like Tripod and Crosswinds, they have an the javascript condition if (window.parent == window) statement just above the line of the actual pop-up script. If you know javascript, then you know that if a page is loading inside a frame, then (window.parent != window) and the following script never executes due to this; in this case, the pop-up does not load, and your page is still AD-FREE!!! Even better, the host can't kick you out for this, if it allows frame-based sites and/or the use of a forwarding service which cloaks your URL, such as http://www----------/ .

[LeX]

Stealth redirection is a redirection service that cloaks your real URL by using a frame.

[voidparanoid]

Thanks.