track popups that I'm viewing
when I am playing go i'd like to see the time tracked as if I'm using the go website that gave me the pop up window.
i like that it doesn't track the tabs that I'm not using though.
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AdmindiN0bot
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hmmmm....popups are interesting because it's a little tricky to know what entity created the popup. Did the user create a new window, or did some site create the new window? Figuring out that two windows are linked might be tricky. I'll look into it.
Many advertisements are placed inside iframes, which, like popups, creates spurious, undecipherable URLs.
The "follow links" Browser Mode, a feature we're still brainstorming, allows for auto-classifications when a user clicks on a link. If a user is reading NYTimes.com, tagged TWS, and clicks a link in the article to WhiteHouse.gov, then WhiteHouse.gov is automatically defaults to TWS rather than ?.
This might not even apply to popups, but at least then the time you spend playing Go will be correct tagged (popups don't usually display a toolbar, so no convenient classification). Still, that doesn't solve the the inheritance problem. Eg, how much time did I spend because of NYTimes.com.
We had a notion of visit inheritance when we first started thinking about the technology. I'll have a look at what that would mean for our current state of things.
(market research wise I expect we're still trying to figure out whether inheritance is something people would find useful, or if people already know the exact sites the want to classify. also, we don't need inheritance to solve the Go popup problem.)
