D Squared To Stop Sending Pop-Ups

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 31, 2004 @04:21PM from the how-very-gracious-of-them dept.

bizpile writes "D Squared Solutions, the company created by college students Anish Dhingra and Jeffrey Davis, has agreed to stop bombarding computer users with Internet pop-up ads to advertise its ad-blocking software, avoiding a court battle with the Federal Trade Commission. They were sending pop-up ads using the Messenger function enabled on many Windows operating systems. Their attorneys claimed the pair were not trying to extort consumers with their ads and only intended to send one a day to computer users. Lawyer Anthony J. Dain has said the ads are 'annoyances you have to deal with in a free society.'" (The San Diego Union-Tribune also has a story.)

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Re:Sick of the baby-shit tan IT color scheme? by RLiegh · 2004-07-31 16:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ok; I should use some CSS code written by ant-slashdot extremists when I could solve the same exact problem by using light mode why, exactly?
Re:Sick of the baby-shit tan IT color scheme? by vxvxvxvx · 2004-07-31 16:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The easy solution (from an AC post the other day) is to backspace over the it.

Poof, no more tan! :)
Re:Sick of the baby-shit tan IT color scheme? by stevejsmith · 2004-08-01 02:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've actually grown kind of used to the scheme and like it. It's very neutral and...just...soothing? I like it.