Snap Shots are the preview popups that appear when you when you mouse over a URL on some websites or blogs. They seem to be gaining in popularity on some blogs. They function like Intellitxt Ads but they aren’t advertising and they’re controlled by the site owner.
Even though they aren’t advertising some of us find it annoying to have something popup while we’re reading a web page.
The Snap FAQ includes a link and instructions for disabling them. Deactivation requires you to reload the page or clear your cache to take effect. In addition, a cookie is needed for the deactivation so cookies must be enabled.
Some websites may have the ability to opt-in so you can turn Snap Shots off or on for the site. I’ve also seen the option to disable right on some of the Snap popup windows.
The Snap Shots do seem to serve a potentially useful purpose. My own view is they pop up at the worst time and are more annoyance than benefit. Do you find them useful?
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They contain advertising now! And people are rushing to switch them off! And Snap guru Erik the Viking uses the term “we here at Snap are not the evil, scheming shysters you make us out to be”
Odd choice of words, that
Agree, it is more annoying than benefit.
If you turn off by selecting “disable on ALL sites”, they will come back when you clear (delete) all cookies -I mean Snap’s cookie, more exact-
I can’t find how to disable this annoying previews even when I clear my IE’s cookies.
If you are using firefox, you can use AdBlock Plus plugin. AdBlock doesn’t make plugin for IE..