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A DoubleClick executive landed in hot soup recently after suggesting browser makers should toe the line when it came to online advertising.
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
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