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New Ultra-Intrusive Pop-up Ads Introduced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-your-day-pass dept.

CrashRide writes "According to this story at AdAge.com, Unicast is attempting to introduce a new on-line ad format that takes over the entire screen of the PC for about 15 seconds and must be closed by the viewer. "The ultra-intrusive new format opens when a user is on one page of a Web site and clicks a link to go to another page on the same site. Instead of seeing that new page, the user sees an ad that fills the entire screen.""

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  1. Disabling JavaScript window resizes by VT_hawkeye · · Score: 3, Redundant

    I predict that, if this kind of thing becomes popular, future browser releases will include disabling of JS window resizing and JS foreground/background control, just like we have pop-up control now.

    If it gets obnoxious enough, people will find ways around it.