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Ok, i'm not so excited about this weeks most dugg article. Maybe it's because my family doesn't really understand how April Fool's day works. Let's just say that "You were a mistake" isn't the best lead in too an amusing practical joke. Well anyway....... Digg's April Fool's day Pop-up Shenanigans

This one wasn't even that funny for me because I use Firefox, so I don't get Pop-ups. But this brings up an interesting question. Why the F*** are Pop-ups even used anymore, I can understand that maybe the granny market loves to click on whateve appears on the screen, but in this day and age it should be hard to trick a trained chimpanzee into clicking a pop-up ad or some flashing banner add that looks like it should give people seizures.

When was the last time someone was surfing the net and a pop-up flashed up, and that person looked at the pop-up and said to themselves, "I've been meaning to enlarge my penis size lately, this looks like a totally legit way to do it! Thanks Internet." I would propose that that scenario occurs as often as someone who is under 18 clicking that they are under 18 when looking porn, that is too say never.

They must certainly be spening money to program and host these ads, and must certainly pay for the space that it takes to allow me to pie the clown for a free PS3. My question is how do they make that money back, their has to be some sort of return profit for them to keep doing it. Well, I guess if the question is, "Is the internet really dumb enough to fall for that?" The answer is always, "Yes."