Stardate 20010706.2250 (On Screen): As obnoxious as flash-ads and pop-unders are, someone's come up with an even better idea. A company called "Brandinium" is about to demonstrate restraint by creating a system which takes over your screen every once in a while and for ten seconds shoves an advertisement in your face. You won't be able to turn it off and you won't be able to get to or use any other program, unless you call the task manager and kill off the browser. They claim they'll "only" do it once every ten minutes. (That's the restraint part, and they're perfectly serious about it.) If they think the backlash against the pop-under camera ads was bad, wait until they see what happens when this goes into effect. If nothing else was going to cause the majority of browser users to start using serious filtering proxies, this is sure to do so. Brandinium, this is called "pissing in the soup."
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