http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/technology/17spy.html
People are throwing away their computers, rather than spend the time to disinfect them (a chore I’m all too familiar with). One person remarked that “she no longer clicks on pop-ups.” What?!? I didn’t know that anyone was still clicking on popups!
The time has come for browsers to eliminate the pop up as a browsing option; kill spyware through the technology which enables it. Web applications which rely on this “feature” should all be reprogrammed.
Popups are costing the world too much money and time–we sunk a bunch of cash into the Y2K change, this one should be easy.