oldhousegal, I commend you. I'd love to be living that way - as they say "every journey begins with a single step". I found a website created by a grad student from Singapore who is studying "food perceptions" of all things. This entire website is dedicated to unraveling the "great pine nut mystery" (don't you love the internet!). Here is a picture of pine nuts. "S" is apparently what you want. "A" is what you don't want. Similar in size.. posting another pic below which is a close up of "A". close up on PNS (pine nut syndrome) inducing pine nut Funny... Target house brand of pine nuts has only had one reported case of PNS but Trader Joe's has had 69 cases.... maybe I'm not ready to give up on Target yet (maybe I am still being naive to believe everything I read on the internet.... looks pretty credible to me though - will link the website below). Here is a link that might be useful: The Great Pine Nut Mystery

Question ... does ANYONE like, enjoy, or find the pop-ups to be at all useful? Has anyone ever clicked on one of the pop-ups to get further information from the advertiser? My guess is NO. I understand the need for advertising, but I hope to heck those who purchase the pop-up space are paying through the nose. As I scroll down a thread, there is tons of available white space in the margins for ads. Why are they not utilizing that space first? I guess if you can annoy the bejeebers out of your patrons and they keep coming back, there is not much incentive to accomodate their wishes. We get GW for free, but we are going to pay in other ways.

I don't know how ads are served on this website (I have my own way of blocking annoying ads... but I don't find GW/Hz to be a problem at all) but the record needs to be set straight that you can, theoretically, get a virus from almost any website. At least any website that has advertisements. Because ad networks can be compromised. This is one reason browsers have to be updated so often. It happens about 2 or 3 times a year to me; most recently on a legal discussion forum. I just browsed to it, and my antivirus caught it trying to install a virus. It's just curious no one else reported your problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising

I didn't even know there were popups. I don't use Adblocker or anything like that but maybe Chrome does something about them.