I was there in the era when hitting a website on the wrong day spawned so many pop-overs and pop-unders that it ground your browser to a halt. And that by tryin

I was there in the era when hitting a website on the wrong day spawned so many pop-overs and pop-unders that it ground your browser to a halt. And that by trying to close any one of them, another 10 windows were launched with more ads. Eventually bogging down the computer so severely (single core FTW!) that your only option was to conduct a hard restart, your unsaved data be damned. I feel for those businesses who try to build a revenue stream off of advertising, but that well has been permanently poisoned for me. If I cannot sanitize a website of its maliciously user-hostile behaviour, I will simply refuse to make use of it. And I encourage everyone to join me. The sooner advertising of all kinds die, the better.