…Will be a thing of the past on all MSN sites in the near future. Being a sceptic, I think they are removing pop-ups because they are ineffective these days as many people have a pop-up blocker of some description, in some cases, this feature is built into the browser (Mozilla, Opera) and with the Google-bar having built in popup prevention for IE, pop-ups are almost obsolete these days. Of course Microsoft are at the forefront of online advertising, with these new 30 second adverts that users will have to endure between random web pages, and there is no way to avoid them, until some boffin comes up with a way to bypass them. In my opinion, the Internet has become too commercial; it used to be about information, now it’s all about making as much money as possible.