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hankswank

9-14-2007 12:31 AM

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9-19-2007 7:19 PM

austingt40

Well, they are the most annoying, definitely. Some pop ups actually pop out into a new window, when others just show an image on the same window, which confuses the user into clicking the 'X' button, giving the advertiser permission to do whatever they wanted because of a false positive.

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