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Microsoft has been really trying to promote Edge amongst people so that it can gain more regular users. There are now funny pop-ups when trying to download Google Chrome on Edge, and a lot more.

Sayan Sen · Dec 2, 2021 · Hot! with 74 comments

The Glass Room pop-up store, a collaboration between Mozilla and Tactical Technology, will be in London showing people disturbing details about how data is sourced and used by large companies today.

Richard Tyr Blewitt · Oct 25, 2017 · Hot! with 5 comments

As a move to provide better search results for users, Google is modifying its mobile search algorithm. It will now give a low ranking to websites which use invasive pop-up elements.

Justin Luna · Aug 24, 2016 · Hot! with 15 comments

The new pop-up compose interface for Gmail is now being pushed to everyone and the option to revert to the old UI is no longer available, even though users have mixed feelings about the new design.

Vlad Dudau · Aug 14, 2013 · Hot! with 40 comments

Microsoft does not plan to update Internet Explorer to prevent a spoofing attack that could trick users into giving out personal information to hackers. In the attack, JavaScript is used to display...

· Jun 24, 2005 with -1 comments

Digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. has long promised "TV Your Way." But the company's plans for pop-up ads and restrictions on copying have sparked worries that the service may be eroding consumer control in...

· Nov 27, 2004 with -1 comments

Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Squared Solutions reached an agreement regarding Squared Solutions business practices. Squared Solutions used Microsoft's Windows Messenger to sell pop-up blocking software to consumers (which would show...

· Aug 10, 2004 with -1 comments

A San Diego company 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. D Squared Solutions...

· Jul 30, 2004 with -1 comments

Today security researchers have discovered a new malware that affects Internet Explorer. This new malware targets bank customer's information. This program copies keystrokes to steal user's passwords from over 50 target online banking...

· Jun 29, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

WRITERS OF pop-up ad code are getting more effective at stopping the blockers. According to news.com, Google's tool bar, which was confidently touted as a firewall against pop-ups has been tunnelled under by...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jun 7, 2004 with -1 comments

Those mosquito-like "pop-up" and "pop-under" Web advertisements could be headed for rapid extinction after Microsoft Corp. decided to phase them out across its MSN Internet units around the globe by summer. The software giant said...

· Feb 13, 2004 with -1 comments

Pop-Up Stopper Professional is the latest in Panicware's award-winning pop-up ad-blocking product line. The only product to provide native support for AOL, MSN, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, SBC Yahoo, CompuServe, WMConnect, Juno, NetZero, Mozilla all...

· Jan 7, 2004 with -1 comments

A company that delivers pop-up ads has been barred from targeting visitors to a particular site. A US district court judge recently barred WhenU from delivering pop-up advertisements to some Net visitors, going against decisions...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 6, 2004 with -1 comments

A federal judge ruled Monday that a California company can send "pop-up" Internet ads that regulators have called "high-tech extortion"—at least until the matter is decided at trial. U.S. District Judge Andre Davis said there...

· Dec 16, 2003 with 1 comment

Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft. ...

· Nov 24, 2003 · Hot! with -1 comments

Pop-Up Stopper Companion provides the ultimate in pop-up and pop-under ad-blocking technology in an integrated, easy-to-use Internet Explorer toolbar. Panicware's top of the line product features their most advanced ad-blocking, cleaning and surfing enhancement technology....

· Oct 31, 2003 with -1 comments

Once derided for flurries of pop-up advertisements, America Online says it will soon offer its customers the ability to banish the litter of unsolicited windows that appear atop and underneath its Web pages. AOL Web...

· Mar 12, 2003 with -1 comments

Panicware would like to proudly announce version 3.0 of our popular Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition. This all new version blocks pop-up and pop-under ads in Internet Explorer and Netscape. As an added...

Tom Warren · Feb 3, 2003 with -1 comments

Thanks GwaRGuITaR. Pop-Up Stopper Professional is the latest in Panicware's award-winning pop-up ad blocking product line. The only product to provide native support for AOL, MSN, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Yahoo SBC all in one...

· Jan 17, 2003 with -1 comments

Thanks mintll for posting this in our back page area. Netscape has updated its flagship browser to version 7.01. This latest release is based on Mozilla 1.0.2 and combines several bug fixes with...

Marcel Klum · Dec 12, 2002 with -1 comments

EarthLink arsenal for luring away subscribers from its online rivals (Microsoft's MSN and AOL) includes a $10 million marketing campaign and new access software that will block pop-up ads, one of the most frequently...

· Aug 20, 2002 with -1 comments

Thanks exit exit for this.. A group of publishers this week sued the Gator online advertising network in a bid to bar the company from serving pop-up ads on their Web sites without their permission....

Steven Parker · Jun 28, 2002 with -1 comments

Thanks MxxCon for the heads up on this one. Salon.com is running a story about a pop-up ad campaign that puts those X-10 adverts to shame. A company named IntelliTech Web Solutions developed a pop...

· May 8, 2002 with -1 comments

Web surfers who thought online advertisements were becoming increasing obtrusive may be dismayed about a new tactic: pop-up downloads. In recent weeks, some software makers have enlisted Web site operators to entice...

· Apr 8, 2002 with -1 comments

I saw this from a link on PlanetNexiz, thanks PM5K... Better late than never... ;) Google does not allow pop-up ads of any kind on our site. We find them annoying....

· Jan 30, 2002 with -1 comments

My personal favorite Pop-Up Stopper has been updated to v1.2 which is more compatible with Windows XP It now uses the same colors as IE seemlessly intergrating much better into your IE Toolbar! Pop-Up Stopper...

Steven Parker · Dec 23, 2001 with 1 comment

Pop-Up Stopper Pro will stop Internet Explorer pop-up windows with this handy browser toolbar for Internet Explorer. Pop-Up Stopper Pro provides pop-up and pop-under blocking technology in an easy to use Internet Explorer toolbar that...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 20, 2001 with -1 comments

Thanks E.lo for this one, Pop-Up Stopper 2.6 incorporates support for Netscape 4.x and a new pop-up control mode for Internet Explorer which allows links in emails and web pages to be followed uninterrupted. ...

Steven Parker · Oct 22, 2001 with -1 comments