Cory Doctorow on Nostr: We got rid of pop-ups by installing pop-up blockers. Browser vendors (starting with ...

We got rid of pop-ups by installing pop-up blockers. Browser vendors (starting with Opera, then Mozilla) blocked pop-ups by default. Soon, pop-ups simply *ceased to exist* for the majority of internet users, and at that point, the same companies who'd insisted that they would go out of business unless they could fill your screen with pop-ups quietly gave up on them and found another way to advertise.

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