It started with pop-up blockers.

Opera was the first major browser to incorporate tools to block pop-up ads; the Mozilla browser later improved on this by blocking only pop-ups generated as the page loads.[citation needed] In the early 2000s, all major web browsers except Internet Explorer let users block unwanted pop-ups almost completely. In 2004, Microsoft released Windows XP SP2, which added pop-up blocking to Internet Explorer. -Wikipedia

Literally, one of the richest companies in the world and can’t figure this out.

Just download some before you sell it and you’ll be good.

Imagine the tracking and monitoring of activity they could do. Might as well go voyeur at that point.

Sounds just like the dumb fuck who killed Xbox.

That was very creative and intense.