Problem
First, web site you visited would have banners,
then pages you had to click through to get to the content you wanted, and then
places like GeoCities put ads in front of the page you were viewing. But
now, at it's highest annoyance level, web page advertising has culminated in the
pop-up (new browser window) and pop-under (where the page is there under the
window you are viewing so you see it when you close the browser window).
Legislation
There is no regulation or law against any of this, but the
newest pop-ups are appearing when you're not even surfing the web -- just
because you are connected! The spamhole, Mike
Wendland talked about hiring a programmer to do just such a thing -- serve
you ads just for being connected to the Internet. Talk about intrusive!
Getting Even
I use a combination of an anti-spyware program,
Ad-Aware, and a pop-up stopper. What else to do? Oh, and
NEVER respond to these ads.
