Pop-up Wars

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Some good news for websurfers... The FTC is actually going after people (Thanks /.)who set up those popup "traps" that  make it difficult to get out of. Before you say it... yes everyone here knows how clever you are by using task manager or a popup stopper. We are amazed! The guy in particular who got nailed here was one of the types who register typo domain names (Like shakcnews.com) and was raking in nearly a million bucks in revenue.

"After one FTC staff member closed out of 32 separate windows, leaving just two windows on the task bar, he selected the 'back' button, only to watch as the same seven windows that initiated the blitz erupted on his screen, and the cybertrap began anew," the FTC said in its complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.

I'm beginning to get tolerant of pop-under ads on a few pages I enjoy (Assuming I only get one for the entire day) but it's good to see the abusive pages getting cracked down on.. at least a little.

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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