Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click

Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by mhurron on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @11:27AM (#8296994)

First - When was the last time you read a popup? Hell, who doesn't have a popup blocker now?

Second - This is not information - "Cable companies could make this page so slow, it would still be loading..."

How? Why? What is this about? There is no information there. On top of that, many ISP's already are (people are familiar with throttling regarding their mobile data plan) so this doesn't even say that anything is changing.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by untog on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @11:40AM (#8297083)

Hell, who doesn't have a popup blocker now?

Again: the vast majority of people. Taking things that techies do and extrapolating to the internet population at large never ends well.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by mhurron on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @12:08PM (#8297264)

Most browsers ship with popup blockers, and they're on by default.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by nitrogen on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @12:35PM (#8297398)

Popup blockers typically don't block pop-overs (in-page HTML elements).

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