Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pop-up advertisement that opens behind the active window of a web browser so that the advertisement is not usually seen until the active window is closed.
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- noun A
pop-up advertisement that appears behind thewindow thattriggers its appearance, and thus can not be seen by theinternet user until the initial window is closed.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A “pop-under” is an ad, on your computer, like a pop-up ad except that it opens up _underneath_ your existing browser window.
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How many of these have you experienced when Web-browsing: music and videos that play automatically, pop-up and pop-under windows that launch on their own, and browser windows that open without navigation buttons or that launch at a size that can't be changed?
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Just closed all my windows in my browser; one lone pop-under lurking beneath them all.
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From July to September of this year, pop-up and pop-under advertisements made up 3 per cent of all on-line ads.
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Topix.net , a news service, experimented with pop-under ads for a while.
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Topix.net , a news service, experimented with pop-under ads for a while.
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Great, now if only Netflix would stop with the pop-under ads that seem to be on every website in existence. reply
Netflix Had Me At “We’re Sorry” MG Siegler 2005
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A study conducted by Dynamic Logic found that almost 70 percent of those surveyed had a "very negative" opinion of pop-under ads and almost 80 percent held similar views on pop-up ads that launch a smaller browser window.
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X10 alienated millions of prospective customers through their reviled pop-under advertising campaign, and still they were extremely proud of it.
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Inside article about those stupid "pop-under" X-10 wireless camera ads.
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