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Haven’t Web evangelists evangelized that Web content and service providers will scramble to accommodate the needs and desires of Web users to offer additional capabilities and functions? Let’s look at one service and software provider—Symantec—and its flagship product, Norton Internet Security.
The Issue
One of the reasons I continued to use Norton Internet Security, despite my better instincts, is that its default states provided fairly good overall protection, including that against pop-ups and online advertisements. Well, not anymore. If you purchase and install NIS 2008 and the (infamous) NIS Add-On Pack for the product, you’ll find that you cannot find the tool to block ads. Why not? I’ll let Symantec speak for itself…
“…today’s Web browsers provide popup blocking solutions”? Really?
Browser “Solutions”
Firefox offers 3rd party add-ons Adblock and Adblock Plus. There’s a 3rd party add-on for Internet Explorer 7.x available: IE7 Pro. Typically, you can use the add-on to:
- Block all kind of Flash ads
- Block url source config by src attribute
- Block image files which config by <img> tag
- Block content which config by <div> tag
- Block content which config by <iframe> tag
So, it seems like Symantec’s reasoning may be on the mark. Right?
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