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CHINATOWN (CBSLA.com) — The white Ford Bronco has returned. As CBS2’s Jo Kwon reports, an OJ Simpson museum is opening at a Chinatown gallery. The white Bronco sitting right outside the museum is not the actual vehicle OJ was in during the 1994 chase — just the same year and model.

I used to like the PJ Media site a lot. But the last couple of weeks, every time I go to a new page I get a @#&*!@&! popup, wanting me to subscribe to their service which will fill up my mailbox with stuff I don't want.The popup has a button that says "I've already subscribed" which leads me to believe that even if I give them my email address it won't stop. I've tried every option I can find in Firefox and Adblocker to make this bloody thing stop showing up. And I've "signed up" using a throwaway address...

I am fed up with, and don't even go to, a number of websites that make it impossible to close their pop-ups--I mean there isn't even a button to do so--or else, when you close the pop-up, an entirely new, screen-filling WINDOW opens. Townhall, CanadaFreePress, NRO, NewsMax, and many others are guilty of this kind of aggression. I'm sick of it. I never even look at what they are hawking, and now, I won't click any links on FR to these sites until I hear that they've cleaned up their act.

I need some help! Lately, I've been getting a vile pop up. Its far beyond any other ad I've encountered on the web. Appearing randomly, in the sidebars and ad spaces of completely innocuous websites, is an ad which says 'sl*ts of facebook', or some other offensive message, but always referring to facebook. In every ad is an uncensored image of a completely naked woman. I don't know is there's some virus on my computer; I've tried running spybot several times, with no result. If any other FReeper has faced such a problem, and/or knows how to stop it from...

When I click on "pings" I get a popup box asking me to sign in to a website for hippercritical.typepad.com. Does this happen to anyone else? This is the only website or FR page where it happens. Never heard of that site, but it appears to be a political blog of some sortBelow is a screencap. Any ideas?

Hello. I mostly lurk, and I visit infrequently unless elections are heating up. I apologize if my post is inappropriate, I know vanity posts are discouraged. If I'm out of line, please report my thread, delete it, smack me down as appropriate. I work on computers for a living, and have been really disgusted with the number and frequency of annoying pop up ads on Drudge. They get past IE's integrated blocker. They get past the Google toolbar. I don't want to install another browser or take heroic measures to browse in peace. If Mr. Drudge asked me to support...

The Mozilla Foundation is testing a patch to its Firefox browser that puts the kibosh on popup ads which have been slipping through the open-source browser's blocker. In recent weeks, said the group, advertising networks, in particular Fastclick, have started exploiting the fact that Firefox's popup blocker doesn't stymie Flash and Java popups by default. Firefox can disable such popups, but the current version has that feature turned off due to concerns that it would interfere with legitimate popup windows that some sites use. A manual method of changing the default to block plug-in popups was offered up by the...

TiVo began testing interactive advertising tools during the weekend as it looks to appease companies wary of users' ability to skip over ads. The company confirmed late Monday that it released the first in a series of advertising features to a random and limited number of subscribers to the digital-video recorder service. The first test feature--a tag--pops up on the screen when a viewer is fast-forwarding through an advertisement. If viewers press the thumbs-up or select button during the half second the tag is displayed, they will be redirected to a menu that leads to more information about the advertised...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Compulsive Australian gamblers seeking help from Gamblers Anonymous are being hit with online casino pop-up advertisements when they visit the Web site of the self-help group, the Daily Telegraph newspaper says. Australians gambled away a record $11 billion in the year to June 2002 -- nearly two percent of gross domestic product and slightly more than the nation's defense budget, according to national statistics released late last year. "This is when they least need that temptation. They are reaching out for support. Suddenly cues that allow them to gamble are there," Louise Sharpe, director of the University...

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Three California brothers were awarded $4.3 million, and stand to win more in punitive damages, after accusing Seattle-based X10 Wireless Technology of trying to bully them out of business. But the brothers, who founded their advertising company when the youngest was still in his teens, say the case is about the cutthroat nature of Internet business, not about money."This lawsuit was about fairness, not about making us rich," said Chris Vanderhook, who created an Internet ad business with his brothers in 1999.Two weeks ago, a Superior Court jury in Santa Ana, Calif., ordered tech company X10...

Alright, I must have gone somewhere I shouldnt have,because I have hundreds of pop-up ads I cannot stop

I was closing down some windows today, and classmates.com had sprung up as a popup - with all that was needed to log in as a high school classmate of my wife. It wasn't a name she had ever looked up, but it was in the list of people from her high school. This would have allowed us to modify her profile.Please check your accounts with them.Mods - if this has been posted before, please delete. Thanks.