In a bold new move to try to stop people from tampering with the Popups and Watermarks, GeoCities (now Yahoo! GeoCities) updated their Javascript Code! There is a lot going on over there now that Yahoo is in charge. So, keep your eye on them and please let me know if anything new appears.

If you go to www.geocities.com now you get redirected to yahoo.geocities.com. The login is now associated with your Yahoo ID, and they place a cookie on your hard-drive to identify you. I reported about a week ago that they were putting the code BEFORE the opening HTML tag. Apparently they saw the error of their ways and changed this. Now the Popup window code is after the closing </HTML> tag.

Take a peek at the new Popup-killing-code HERE (the link opens in a new window). This caused our previous solution with NOSCRIPT tags to be obsolete! Remember: the legal method of removing the Popup ads (by adding a GeoGuide to your page) still works. The new method works by taking over the window, then closing it! Visit our GeoCities page for the complete solutions.

No sign of the dreaded watermark yet. Yahoo!GeoCities has a new Info Center that gives news about the merger between GeoCities and Yahoo! According to them: "The transparent GeoCities Watermark that used to float on the lower-right corner of all our pages is gone. It has been replaced with a cool new Yahoo! GeoCities logo that links back to the GeoCities home page." But, after surfing many pages I have yet to see this new "Yahoo! Geocities logo". When you see it, please let me know.

This proves once again that big, lumbering, greedy corporate-entities like "Yahoo!GeoCities" are no match against young code-warriors like us! Go ahead -- disable your popup ads and give them the proverbial "middle finger" to show them that you aren't as stupid as they think you are!

Oh, and be sure to write to Yahoo!GeoCities and let them that you STILL hate Popup Advertising and Watermarks!