| Programs you
load into your computer that keep content you don't want to see from
appearing on your screen. For example, you can set up blocking
software to automatically screen out anything about dogs, your least
favorite band, or of course, violent material.
A pop-up ad is a pop-up window
used for advertising. When the program is initiated by some user
action, such as a mouse click or a mouseover, a window containing an
offer for some product or service appears in the foreground of the
visual interface. Like all pop-ups, a pop-up ad is smaller than the
background interface - windows that fill the user interface are
called replacement interfaces - and usually resembles a small
browser window with only the close, minimize, and maximize options
at the top. A variation on the pop-up ad, the pop-under, is a window
that loads behind the Web page that you're viewing, only to appear
when you leave that Web site. |
