Virtual Smart Agents … Smart To Use?
May 18, 2008 – 10:52 pmI know you've seen them, and I know you have an opinion. Everybody has an opinion on the VirtualSmartAgents. My dad has an opinion too, and I'll get to that in a moment. First though, if you don't know what VSA's are, they are annoying little popup-windows simulating a customer service representative wanting to give you a better deal than the one present on the page. The popups appear when you are about to leave the page, or atleast they are supposed to... In some cases I've stumbled upon, the script is set to show the popup every time the mouse pointer loses focus on the current page (as in your mouse pointer slides away from the browser window), which includes when you click a link. Not good. The better ones won't popup until you're about to close the browser window (or tab if you don't use an older browser), or hit ...

