At 09:50 PM 08/06/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Just a note about what's happening with Web advertising. ... But as soon as I clicked on the details I wanted, the boxes obscuring the content appeared _again_. Again, I closed the box, again up popped a new one, and so on.
Perhaps we are in the End Times. Surely this advertising model cannot last long. Maybe this is how remailers will have to finance operations.
It'd be a fine way to finance Assassination Politics, except the people advertising that way are also the primary targets :-) Most of those annoying things use JavaScript, which you should normally keep turned off unless there's a page you *really* want to see badly enough that you're willing to risk allowing to run dangerous stupid code on your browser. Some of them may use Java instead. A slightly cuter technique is to pop up the new advertising window *behind* the windows with the real content. When you're done reading the real windows and close them, the ad's sitting there politely waiting for you, trying to sell you that X10 camera yet again.