In the Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun," there's an annoying song, "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better," that goes back and forth like two spoiled kids bickering.

Watching the back-and-forth battle between the purveyors of pop-up advertising and the browsers and plug-ins geared to stop the pop-ups is a little like sitting through this song—only with the added annoyance of pop-up ads.

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