295551 - 'Server-side' popups NOT blocked from PayPopup.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 270867

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[steve herfst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.04

Loading this page results in pop-up ads showing up.

These popups appear whenever you load a new page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Load URL
2.  - wait - 

Actual Results:  
Pop-ups (and pop-unders) appear


Expected Results:  
No pop-ups should appear, other than the main page.

I think the window requests are being generated on the server-side.

Not sure how to block them other than blocking any anomalous windows appearing 
without user interaction or request.

Comment 1

[Tristor]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

I don't see any popups on that page in Mozilla 1.7.8, let me check in FF trunk
real fast.  I can't think of anything that should have changed between the way
Moz handles popups and the way FF does.

Comment 2

[Pawel Worach]

I can not make the popups appear on page load but clicking in the content area
makes one show up.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050525
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Tristor]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524
Firefox/1.0+

It does indeed open a popup in FF.  I have figured out why though, it is being
opened in a way that I have blocked in my JS settings on Mozilla.  I didn't see
any popunders, but it did open a popup in a new tab (I have all new windows
forced to new tabs) when clicking on the main content area, although not on page
load.  After examining the source of the document, it appears they are using JS
to create them in a way that isn't being blocked by having Javascript create
more Javascript.  Such as:

document.write('<script src="' + rm_host + '/url.js?url=' +
rmUrlEncode(document.URL) + '">

This was in http://ad.yieldmanager.com/rmtag2.js which I (not knowing JS very
well, but knowing some of it) read this as saying "write to the document a
script with the source of 'remotehost' + '/url.js?url=' + 'encoded remote url'"

It does indeed get around the popup blocking mechanism.

Comment 4

[Tristor]

There is also a script that calls a function called printAdLayer() for body
onload when it meets certain conditions (I am guessing it only calls it once per
visit).

Comment 5

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050525
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052515
I get the popup too. No clicking of anything was required; just loaded the page
and waited a short while.

Dupe of bug 270867?

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270867 ***