No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0

Posted by michael on Wednesday August 14, 2002 @05:36PM from the market-share-apparently-unimportant dept.

jsled writes "C|Net /News.com article details how the forthcoming Netscape 7.0 will not include the nifty pop-up blocking sported in Mozilla, as AOL depends on pop-up ads for annoy^H^H^H^H^Hmarketing to their "valued" customers. The MozillaZine story and comments have a couple of extra, interesting points of detail: how to easily restore the functionality and how some sites get around the popup blocking." Update: 08/15 12:45 GMT by J : In related news, Doug Isenberg asks over on GigaLaw: Are Pop-Up Ads Illegal? The news publishers who say "yes" say that turning off graphics in your web browser should be illegal too.

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Possible backlash... by Alea · 2002-08-14 17:56 · Score: 2, Flamebait

I like and use Mozilla, but do not use the popup blocking. If a site needs the revenue of popups and I don't value the site enough to tolerate them, I won't go there.

What I worry about is that if too many people block popup, the sites will turn around and block that browser (i.e. Mozilla or modified Netscape 7.0).

Of course, you could always hack Mozilla to pretend to be IE... :)

Bottom line: Sites need revenue and will fight to get it. Think twice before blocking ads at a site you like.