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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by rockskon on Thursday January 01, 2026 @02:43PM (#46457315)
Pop-ups working on (to pick a number out of thin air) 0.01% of viewers and alienating 5% to never visit the website again is still incentive to use pop-ups.

Pop-ups working to get money and pop-ups working to alienate users are not mutually exclusive.

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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by DeusExMachina on Thursday January 01, 2026 @06:39PM (#46459471)
Where did you pull those numbers out from?

But ok, if we want to play with made up numbers, pop-ups working with the 0.01% of viewers that are willing to spend money are worth alienating even 10% of people that will never spend a dime.

You are assuming every visitor is the same, when most are just a waste of resources.

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