yellowstone's Journal: Has CSS (+ JavaScript) wrecked the WWW?

Pop-ups are back. You've seen them, right? "Take our short survey." "Subscribe to our magazine." Crap like that. Stuff that uses JavaScript and CSS to scroll out some stupid invitation to waste time and give up my (and your) personal information.

That's bad enough. An annoyance; mostly harmless. But now, there's 'click-jacking'. I suppose the lesson here is to stay away from facebook (done and done, at least for my part). But how long will it be before this "invisible action" crack is used some place else?

So much of the web these days needs JavaScript to work. What happens when it becomes too dangerous to surf with JavaScript turned on?

Update: I read down into the comments at the link, and apparently, 1) this is actually rather old, and 2) there's a Firefox add-on to guard against click-jacking. Too bad I like to use Opera, though :-(