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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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