From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 23:53:47 MDT
Phil Osborn writes:
> Today, when I went to the Extropy.org site and clicked
> on "communities..." and then "on-line lists", or some
> such thing that is practically reflex, I got a message
> that this operation has been cancelled due to system
> restrictions. Turns out that after a 3 year battle to
> finally get use of copy and paste and text search, the
> powers that be here have decided to restrict us to a
> single window at a time.
I wonder if this might be a defense against the increasing use of pop-up
and pop-under windows for web advertising. Inexperienced computer users
tend to be confused and frustrated by these increasingly prevalant and
annoying techniques.
I am able to configure my web browser to suppress pop-ups except in
direct response to user clicks. That stops the pop-up ads very well,
while still letting useful windows display. But I don't think most
browsers (i.e. I.E.) have this ability.
Hal
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