Pop-up ads have one foot in the grave

In case you thought pop-up ads weren’t dead enough, that bell you hear ringing is the death knell for the pop-ups served by Claria, the company, formerly known as Gator, that did more to clog up a perfectly reasonable Web-browsing experience than anyone else. That doesn’t mean pop-ups are going away; it just means Claria is selling its pop-up business so that someone else who wants to be a public scourge can have at it.