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Originally Posted by RDD
I personally hope & feel that pop ups will go away one day. I see them as the graffiti of the Internet. :(
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That's like saying all signage in a city should be taken down because it's "visual pollution". You have to qualify what kind of signs are offensive and which serve a needed purpose. (ie: Big ad billboard VS a School Zone warning).
Pop-up *ABUSE* is the problem, not just pop-ups in of themselves. Pop-ups can serve a useful purpose. Like in these very forums for example, a Private Message can appear in a pop-up. I prefer that method instead of receiving an email, or having to remember to check my PM inbox.
Also we have to make an income some how. It's ridiculous when webmasters put up pop-up after pop-up on every page, but when it's one pop-UNDER that appears once a day and no more, that's very tolerable. We can tolerate having our television shows interrupted every 10 minutes, so what's the occasional pop-up gonna do to us?
These pop-up blockers should be designed to detect when there's pop-up abuse, rather than just blocking them all.