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Browser Becomes Billboard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the inevitability dept.

MikeKD writes "Citing a desire to 'enhance the user experience', United Virtualities is 'preparing to introduce a product [called Ooqa Ooqa] that will allow advertisers to automatically change the appearance of Web browsers, usurping some of the functions built into popular browsers...', according to an MSNBC article--and all this supposedly without downloading any additional software. UV says a lot of sweet things about being able to turn it off and allowing the web sites to customize the degree of intrusion (from reverting to normal form when leaving to retaining the rebrand even after leaving), but does anyone think advertisers will restrain themselves? Not I." Friends don't let friends use browsers susceptible to this.

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  1. fp? by CrashRide · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp?

    1. Re:fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      YES

      First follow-up claimed in the name of my balls.

      Cherish them.

  2. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    post

    1. Re:first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      AC's claim 5th post! Well done AC!
      Next time shoot for 10th, that's even more exclusive.

  3. asdf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    furst posten moother f0x3rz

  4. WHAT?!?!??? by Blackstealth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I get plenty annoyed by the banner ads on slashdot, I don't need to visit some cheap and nasty site and having it changing my browser appearance to get me to try to remember to avoid it the future. Thank Bob (and possibly CowBoyNeal) for Mozilla...

  5. Re:everybody bend over by linuxChique · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I LOVE BIG BROTHER!!!

    --
    the penguin will eat you.
  6. Mod parent up by citizenc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No text; mod the parent up.

  7. Re:Ooqa Ooqa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Having names like "Ooqa Ooqa" and "Shoshkeles" can't be good either.

  8. Re:everybody bend over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Nobody actually expects you to read the article, jackass, but this affects Netscape products too.

    Having said that, enjoy your positive moderation that will surely accompany another shining example of the problems around here.

  9. Re:Is this legal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go move to Cuba then asswipe!

  10. Re:Death of the Last Good Browser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You've obviously misread. Allow me to explain -

    He said good browser. Easy mistake to make.

    You're welcome.

  11. Re:Death of the Last Good Browser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He said it'd be the death of the last good browser, fuckwit.

  12. Yes yes damn it yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    okay, i'll marry you. when should we set the date?

  13. You Sir are a moron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And now, please go away.

    1. Re:You Sir are a moron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      dude, that is SERIOUSLY lame... logging as an anoncow and calling someone a moron.

      go play somewhere else.

      LOL

  14. Why would advertisers bother? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Why would they bother to target Konq or Mozilla? To reach 0.025% of the desktop market?

    Please.

  15. Re:an analogy if you will. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that would be very convenient if you had a tampon fetish

  16. Re:Ooqa Ooqa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rofl! somebody mod this +1 funny

  17. Re:or Omniweb on OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    macs are for fags like you. DIE OF STDS. please :-)

  18. Re:Ooqa Ooqa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, that is almost as bad as the Hogg sisters that were named Ima and Ura (true story, some jerk of a father with too much oil money).

  19. Re:an analogy if you will. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That is one messed up slogan to begin with. I really don't want to be thinking, "Tampax was here" when *I* am there.

  20. Re:everybody bend over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, but guess how many well-informed people will be involved in the boycott. This will not work.

  21. Re:Uh oh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's "bonsai" not bonzai. -_-

  22. Re:Death of the Last Good Browser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kinda sounds like the Mark of The Beast.

  23. Re:or Omniweb on OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fucktards with shit for brains, like yourself, should only pull their heads out of their asses and catch a breath.

    In conclusion, go jump in front of a bus. Thanks.

  24. My god mod the troll down by Tokerat · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    If you don't like cookies to be stored on your comptuer, turn them off.

    Would you rather /. logged your IP address? Oh great, imagine what lameass little trolling skript kiddies will do with THAT list once they break in and steal it. I think a number in your browser's database is harmless. QYFB!

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    CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
  25. HOW FUCKING GAY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how fucking gay is this - why cant we just use TEXT ONLY browers and leave the fancy stuff to my PR0N

  26. Re:an analogy if you will. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    unless you are the one pulling the tampax out :-)

  27. Re:everybody bend over by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OH GOD NO

  28. Re:I use Comcast's Internet Explorer... by praktike · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...and every time that I open a window I see on the title bar: "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast"

    this can be changed in the registry to anything you want. just go the the internet explorer/main section, and it should be pretty straightforward.

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    -------- -praktike