---
title: "Annoying pop up on this blog? No more, I hope."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/19/annoying-pop-up-on-this-blog-no-more-i-hope.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/19/annoying-pop-up-on-this-blog-no-more-i-hope.html"
published: "2005-10-19T19:33:00"
updated: "2005-10-19T19:33:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I seem to have inadvertently let in a pop up ad into this blog through one of the amazon or google ads. This was unintentional and I'm freaked out that I haven't noticed it. I still haven't, but I've gotten 3 emails…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Annoying pop up on this blog? No more, I hope.

By Roy Osherove October 19, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 19, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

I seem to have inadvertently let in a pop up ad into this blog through one of the amazon or google ads. This was unintentional and I'm freaked out that I haven't noticed it. I still haven't, but I've gotten 3 emails today about this so I went ahead and fiddled with the HTML of this blog a bit.

Please let me know if you still see any annoying pop up ads. It would help if you could tell me all the details you can about them so that I can track this down. If push comes to shove I'll just take down all the ads and add them one by one until I find the culprit. My main suspicion though is an old amazon ad I had lying around here with an old link. I removed that so hopefully there should be the end of it.

**Please** let me know, either in a comment or email to \[email removed\] that I still have a problem.

Thanks, and sorry.

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Oct 30, 2005

    ### [My blog is not worthless after all](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/30/my-blog-is-not-worthless-after-all.html)

- Oct 21, 2005

    ### [More popups?](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/21/more-popups.html)

- Oct 16, 2005

    ### [When LINQ and Yukon meet](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/16/when-linq-and-yukon-meet.html)

- Oct 10, 2005

    ### [The new MS 4000 keyboard and a ThinkPad go great together](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/10/the-new-ms-4000-keyboard-and-a-thinkpad-go-great-together.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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