Don’t Make Monies Online
December 9th, 2008
You know what really grinds my gears? Those goddamn links that force your browser into an endless dance of someone swinging their dick around in circles to the tune of You Spin Me Right Round by Dead or Alive. The latest implementation of this abomination is www.makemoniesonline.com. Fortunately, I’ve been tricked into clicking this damn thing so many times that I’ve become an expert at quickly closing the browser without ending the task forcefully.
I use Firefox and so should you.
When your browser starts flailing homosexually around your screen, follow this list and you should be safe from the dreaded dick roll:
- Make sure the browser window is in focus
- Using alt+tab is the easiest way to do this when the window keeps jumping around away from your mouse
- Immediately press Ctrl+F4
- This will attempt to close the current tab that is open, which is the swinging dick of course.
- Hold Enter or Escape
- Usually a Javascript alert will appear and will continue to be on your screen until you get through the entirety of the song or whatever is happening. The last popup will be a Continue or Exit screen usually. If you hold down Enter or Escape, one will keep you on the page and one will close it. It usually changes, so its easiest to just hold down one of the keys and if it works, good, if not, then hold down the other when it starts over.
- Be careful for “clicking” the link again
- When you hold Enter to close all of the alerts, sometimes the page will close, only to take you back to your previous page where you clicked the link. If this happens, the link will probably be in focus while you’re holding down the Enter button. This case will bring up the link again and you’ll have to start over. So if you see this happening, you can hold Enter for a while and then slow down and go one by one towards the end.
Good luck. May your days be dick roll free.
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