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"Pop Under" Advestising Filtering?

Mansing asks: "It has finally happened. A good number of the mainstream web sites my users access (NY Times, CNN) have gone to using "Pop Under" advertising. For those who have missed this delightful advertising approach, the content provider places a small Javascript script in their web page that opens a 700 by 420 pixel window with the advertiser's content. (See FastClick for details about 'Pop Unders') The first advertiser I noticed was X10.com. As mentioned previously on Slashdot, that particular advertiser has an "opt out" page that will remove the advertisement for thirty days. (Which doesn't exactly work correctly) There have always been small, unobtrusive pop up Javascript windows to promote something from the site, but normally these windows were features of the site, not an advertisement. " It all boils down to immature use of Javascript's window.open() call. There are a few browsers out there that have implemented the beginnings of a solution, though. Konqueror, for example, can tailor the use of Javascript by site domain and can globally disable the use of window.open(). Now if the two features could be combined somehow, in browsers like Konqueror and Mozilla, we'd have an effective tool against such behavior.

"The quick solution is to disable Javascript in the browser. However, this is unacceptable to the users. Another solution is to boycott those sites that use "Pop Under" advertising. This solution is becoming more untenable as the spread of this advertising format has infected so many popular sites. Boycotting the advertiser is effective, but is doesn't remove the advertisements.

Surely in the Slashdot community there must be a technical solution for these bandwidth burning advertisements. Has anyone implemented a solution to this, or are we Internet users stuck being abused by marketing droids who don't realize how quickly they are annoying the very markets they seek?"

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