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Prince of Pop-ups

Posted by michael on from the everyone's-gotta-be-prince-of-something dept.

Ric writes "From the article lead paragraph: 'If you hate pop-up ads, you might blame Brian Shuster. A long-time figure in the Internet pornography world, Shuster recently received a patent for the ad format and is now looking to make some money off the sites that use it. And that's just the beginning - Shuster has a long list of pending patents, including one for pop-up audio ads that cannot be turned off.'"

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  1. Excellent!! by Binestar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If this guy can start charging people for using popups then these webpages won't pay and popups will start dying off. While a patent like this is mostly a bad thing, the side effects are good!

    Of course I use mozilla with popup filtering enabled, so it's not really that much of an issue to me. =)

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  2. Anyone have this guy's address? by ManoMarks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To inundate him with junk mail, of course, and also to hit him up for money. Or just hit him. No, wait, I'm a Quaker. I keep forgetting that...

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    That's gotta fit into your schema somewhere

  3. Re:Hooray! by bhsurfer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not sure that giving this type of scumbag millions of dollars to play with would prevent any future annoying web "functionality". Hell, it might be providing him R&D money to do develop ways to REALLY piss people off...

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  4. As good of place as any by SomeOtherGuy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was asked a question by a co-worker yesterday, and did not have a solid answer. Since it somewhat relates to this story and google did nothing but bring back ads for popup blockers, I thought I would loose it to the /. people. Simple question -- Anybody who has used Firebird, Mozilla, Opera, etc -- has seen how much better the browsing experience is without countless popups. What is stopping Microsoft from putting out a version or patch of/to IE that has this feature? I know that the conspirecy theorists could speculate to no end on this one, but is there a simple answer?

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