Comments for Why do I keep getting a newsletter subscribe pop-up on your site?

Comment from Roy Flint on 2009-07-15

2009-07-15T10:40:09Z

Hi Leo, I don't know if this will work or not. I use Firefox, and delete when closing all the time. However I do read my email in a browser. Could the links within the newsletter 'pre-set' the cookie maybe? Then when the site is entered, the cookie will be there having been planted by the link.?? Or use some sort of re-direction page on your site that places the cookie?? I'm just thinking is there an alternate way to set the cookie in each time from the newsletter?

In short, yes. Kinda. This is the direction I'm investigating. The problem is that it doesn't resolve the issue for newsletter subscribers who visit the site via paths other than the newsletter. But it could be an improvement, yes.

- Leo
15-Jul-2009

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Comment from Calvin Kyle Bobbitt on 2009-07-14

2009-07-14T21:17:47Z

You could give your visitors the option of logging in to your website with their email address. And then you could check that addy with the list of your subscribers. As long as they are logged in they shouldn't see the popup.

For me to "remember" that you're logged in requires cookies. So if the existing cookie approach doesn't work because cookies are getting erased, neither will the login approach. Sorry.

- Leo
15-Jul-2009

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Comment from Charlie Griffith on 2009-07-14

2009-07-14T19:17:55Z

Leo...that pop up mentioned above is so easily gotten rid of by clicking on that "x" that I evaded my guilty feeling that I'd somehow let my subscription lapse to your superb newsletter. I'd put up with a lot more than that to continue receiving this N/L.
I'd like to hear a suggestion for Bob Rocha's question about the selection of cookies to retain. (Firefox, if set, obligingly eliminates all cookies at shutdown.)

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Comment from Dave Markley on 2009-07-14

2009-07-14T19:12:29Z

Just a thought: Of course this is an annoying pop-up, but come on people - for all Leo does for all of us is it that much trouble to just click the little "X" to turn it off. Leo gives us a wealth of information each and every week and asks nothing in return. I hate pop-ups as much as anyone, but it is the only pop-up we get in his newsletters, (unlike many sites), and Leo does not bombard us with ads, etc. Leo must get many comments and questions about this pop-up for him to even address it, so wouldn't we all be better off if the space he had to use (and time) to address this issue was used for a more important issue? We should all be grateful for all Leo does for us and just learn to live with it. Thanks again Leo!

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Comment from steven on 2009-03-03

2009-03-04T00:16:33Z

Why does your popup resemble ask Bob Rankin, exactly. That site also has a subscriber pop up. It also does not know I subscribed. My cookies are enabled, Netzero hates disabled cookies.

Bob and I happen to use the same email service. (Though "exact" is a bit strong - the words and colors are quite different.)

- Leo
04-Mar-2009

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Comment from steven on 2009-03-03

2009-03-04T00:09:46Z

Why not use some other way to remember me that does not use cookies. I always erase all of them when I sign off.

Even though a few people have problems (for which I do apologize), cookies are by far the most reliable to do this. In fact, it's exactly the kind of thing the cookies were meant for.

- Leo
04-Mar-2009

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Comment from James Rocha on 2008-07-08

2008-07-08T18:33:02Z

Is there any way to protect cookies from selected sites from being cleaned along with a general clearing of cookies?

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