I was there in the late 90s to early 2000s, when the ad wars created auto-launching pop-overs and pop-unders. Where closing an ad would spawn 10 more, and where

I was there in the late 90s to early 2000s, when the ad wars created auto-launching pop-overs and pop-unders. Where closing an ad would spawn 10 more, and where hitting any site on the wrong day could initiate a blizzard of browser windows that would bring even the most powerful PC of the era to its knees such that your only possible solution would be a hard shutdown and restart, your current active and unsaved data in any other program be damned. Sorry, but that particular well for revenue generation has been permanently poisoned for me. I will never suffer another online ad if I can possibly help it. It sucks for any legitimate website looking to support its operations, but those horses have long since fled the barn.