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No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0
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.
Netscape 7.0 will suck. Film at 11.
A lot of sites you enjoy - like a certain "news for nerds" site - rely on ads to help pay for things YOU use, like bandwidth and colo space. If you're too purist to let a site feed you an ad, you're too purist to visit the site, and should stick to your ideologically pure (and probably bankrupt) sites.
Don't like the ad? Here's an idea.
Scroll down.
It's not like you need to give your full attention to the ad, like on TV.
Now awaiting irrational "you're wrong, we must be pure, ads suck and I'm not willing to pay the costs either" stuff...