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    Local eBay users will not be troubled by the pop-up ads that are set to infiltrate the screens of their American counterparts.

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    Some online publishers are taking pins to pop-up advertisements, but Web surfers won't likely notice a decline in the annoying marketing ploy anytime soon.

  • Dodging pop-ups with Mozilla

    Mozilla 1.0, the open-source technology behind the latest Netscape browser, is garnering favour for helping to block irksome pop-up advertisements. But don't expect to see that feature in the coming full release of Netscape 7.0.

  • Web surfers brace for pop-up downloads

    Web surfers who thought online advertisements were becoming increasingly obtrusive may be dismayed by a new tactic: pop-up downloads.

  • Consumers: Stop the pop-ups!

    Increasingly annoyed with pop-up ads that hijack their Web browsers, savvy consumers are fighting back with software and self-styled tricks to keep pop-ups from their screens.

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    A DoubleClick executive landed in hot soup recently after suggesting browser makers should toe the line when it came to online advertising.

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    Despite reductions in the number of computers infected by spyware applications, the troublesome software has created a billion-dollar industry that continues to plague both consumers and businesses, researchers said on Tuesday.

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    In what could prove to be one of the great second acts in Internet history, erstwhile king of spam Sanford Wallace takes centre stage this week as exhibit A in a federal crackdown on invasive online advertising software.

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  • Browsers without borders?

    A DoubleClick executive landed in hot soup recently after suggesting browser makers should toe the line when it came to online advertising.

  • New IE may burst pop-up bubble

    Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.

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