By Adam Thierer, Berin Szoka, & Adam Marcus As noted in the first installment of our “Privacy Solution Series,” we are outlining various user-empowerment or user “self-help” tools that allow Internet users to better protect their privacy online-and especially to defeat tr...

While I can understand that bloggers want to encourage people to subscribe to their RSS feed OR email newsletter, do they have to annoy us with popups? A lot of bloggers seem to have adopted a really annoying popup system that loads EVERY single time you visit their blog. Every time. Haven't they he...

Do pop-up ads qualify as "deceptive marketing practices"? Good Morning America says "yes." A free enterprise advocacy group says "no." We say "yes, but don't you know not to click that shit by now?" We guess it's a public service that GMA did a spot last week warning people not to enter their credit...

Nothing about this is fucked up. Nothing. (news.yahoo.com) I DEFY you to find anything wrong with it. Still trying? You can’t. You’re lovin’ it. It’s totally appropriate. Look at the Yankees sharing the grief of all the families. Great work everyone. That’s a breakfast ...