Re: pop-up ads and denial of service attacks

[Jesse Ruderman]

"Mitchell Stoltz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
>
> > No, because there are too many sites of both sorts. So, even if
> > "legitimate" and illegitimate uses don't appear on the same site, this
> > approach still won't work. No matter how I set the default, I will break
> > on many sites. And I won't bother to alter the prefs (even with UI) for
> > every third site.
>
> What if you could turn the blocking on for the current site via the
> context menu? Would that be convenient enough?
>
> I'm worried about making "disallow window.open except on user click" the
> default, because I think even that might break a significant number of
> legitimate uses. It could be a pref that applies to all sites, though.

Here's one site it wouldn't break:
http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0106/eclair/

The site has a "click here if you thought that was a pop-up ad" link.