A generation ago, publishers and advertisers fell in love with pop-up ads. Early pop-ups were virulent in ways that are hardly imaginable today: visiting a website summoned *dozens* of pop-ups, some of them employing dirty tricks like spawning as an invisible 1x1 pixel, or running away from your cursor when you tried to close them. They auto-played sound and music. They were *awful*.
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