Pop-ups with your Web videos

Lovely. Free videos just may not be that free anymore. Tell your kids! Now an unsuspecting Web video fan can click on a title like "Friends Play a Hilarious Practical Joke" and get a bunch of pop-up ads on their screens. That's just one of the annoying, buggy clips working its way through the Web social networks, ASPnews reports. They come with "adware Bellevue, Wash.-based Zango," which, APSnews explains, "makes money by partnering with webmasters who post videos on their sites." What happens is, you click on a title and get a pop-up box of "fine print explaining the end user license agreement." When you click on that, you download "a 'Zango Search Assistant,' which, according to tiny text in the pop-up, 'will show you a limited number of ads that pop up on your screen in a separate browser'."