Posted: 12th Mar, 2003 By: MarkJ
AOL has finally got around to introducing a number of anti-pop-up measures, which should enable its customers to suppress the intrusive ads while surfing the Internet:
The ISP giant plans to automatically install pop-up-stopping features onto the desktops of its 33 million members during the next two weeks - though impatient members can also download it directly. The tool, called Web Pop-Up Controls, will let people zap most ads that pop up or under requested web pages throughout the internet, outside of the AOL service.
The controls are being introduced at the request of AOL members, many of whom list pop-up ads as one of the chief causes of ire while visiting the service and the web, according to the company.Hopefully AOL's software will be intelligent enough to distinguish between advertising pop-ups and legitimate website content. More @
Silicon.