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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 01, 2026 @12:15AM (#46451508)
Quite true. Sundar Pichai got his start on the path to fame at Google by getting the Google Toolbar install injected into things like the Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Flash installers. Look at him now.
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by jonway on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:07AM (#46452201)
Oh man I totally forgot about that Toolbar scourge back in the day day! These trash piles were all over and everyone’s mom that I knew had like 3 or 4.
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by kstrauser on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:28AM (#46453576)
Every year, the post-Thanksgiving ritual of deleting all of them from a relative’s PC, at their request because “it’s running slow”, knowing darn well they’d re-install them within the week.
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by PaulHoule on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:08AM (#46454692)
More like 12 or 15 and you were lucky to have an 800x600 screen and so they were looking through an 800x150 viewport.
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