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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pop-up blocking is great... by TheLocustNMI · 2002-08-15 00:12 · Score: 1, Offtopic

...but when will we see some sort of blocking feature to remove that lame ^H^H^H^H joke? That's what i want to see :)

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Enough already... by stubear · 2002-08-15 00:33 · Score: 1, Offtopic

...annoy^H^H^H^H^Hmarketing...

Why must the geeks beat this stupid joke into the ground? Say what you're going to say and be done with it.