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Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore
An anonymous reader writes "If you've noticed that pop-up ad windows seem to have made an unwelcome return into your life, it's because they're not using the same easily blockable technology as before. The Adimpact system uses DHTML to annoy you, and there's no immediate prospect of a solution."
...but I got so distracted with those shiny X10 pop-up ads.
It has subtracts too!
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Blackjack and hookers.
And likewise if your content is residing on my harddrive then you are squatting on my property and must pay me rent.
(I wonder how much more surreal we can make this? ;D)
and are a complete RETARD.
Or maybe you're just working in marketing
I thought the second was a subset of the first.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Why not just telnet to port 80 and read the page as it streams across?
Then how do you pay for the content? Do you send the site owner checks directly?
E pluribus unum
Sounds like someone is in need of a few extra visitors.
Perhaps in the form of a distributed set of requests - that really shouldn't be denied - for service, but we surely shouldn't attack them.
Question everything
Excuse me, but we disagree with you. Thanks, US Auto Industry US Airline Industry US Banking Industry