It was bad enough when pop-ups began to dominate web advertising, but at least we had a counter weapon in the browsers themselves, as well as add-ins like Ad-Block. Pop-unders seem to remain unaffected, but they are no annoyance until you close the browser.
And then there are those annoying roll-over JavaScript pop-ups. I haven't found a solution to that except to disable JavaScript and hope to be properly notified where it needs to be re-enabled. But it's not, in the case of this blog's editing software. I'm sure it causes other problems.
The best solution seems to be to use Readibility. It's free and cleans up 99% of the garbage by reformatting the entire page, presenting only the text portion. It's especially useful to get rid of flashing advertisements. However, it also tends to ignore the comments on an article, if any.
Now a new, insidious menace is creeping in. Even major web sites like Time Magazine are including third-party ads to which they link by way of including them in their own web site. But those third-party servers are frequently down or perhaps overloaded. Either way, well after the web page is loaded you get an error pop-up saying they cannot contact junksite.com (or whatever.) Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
What a bunch of amateurs!
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