, 2002-11-18
Pop-up ads have already inspired civil lawsuits. Here's how federal computer crime law and the USA-PATRIOT Act could put obnoxious advertisers in the pokey.
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Locking Down the Pop-up Perps
, 2002-11-18 Pop-up ads have already inspired civil lawsuits. Here's how federal computer crime law and the USA-PATRIOT Act could put obnoxious advertisers in the pokey.
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It's not the content of your message that cause the problem, but e.a, that because I agree to read your message I will not agree that reading it open a ads to another web site.
On the Internet, more and more actions are done in our back, eating our precious computer ressources and time.
Having better web browser that can have a better filter on the actions performed by the content of the page will not resolved enterely the problem.
The problem is realy coming from the active scripting. More and more sites use it, so you can not simply forbidden it. And even if you set your browser to ask you the authorisation to perform scripting you haven't the time nor the knowledge to parse the complete script before launch just to be sure that the active contain will perform as you would like.
And no automatic analyse will ever do it with an 100% hit.
Ads are a annoyance and as so every actions that can be done to suppress them must be taken, even legal actions.
Didier
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