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Dodging pop-ups with Mozilla (News.com)

[Posted August 15, 2002 by cook]

According to News.com, Netscape 7.0 will not include Mozilla's ability to block popup advertising windows. ""Netscape is a commercial offering--it's not in its interest to offer a browser that could kill pop-up ads," said Michael Gartenberg, research director with Jupiter Research. "That's the equivalent of one of the broadcast networks coming out with a digital video recorder that can skip commercials.""

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Posted Aug 17, 2002 23:26 UTC (Sat) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Interesting in that I think the PR1 release *does* do this.

But this is what I expect of corporations...