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"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" ""> <html><body> <p>One
thing led to another this weekend, and yesterday I found myself
playing around with Internet Explorer on Windows 8.1. It had
probably been 20 years since I'd last used it. It turned out to
be surprisingly nice once I got everything set up, so then I got
curious and set up the tile version too. (That's the Windows RT
version, aka the Metro version, aka the Modern UI version, aka
whatever Microsoft is calling it this month.) It was actually
fairly nice too. I have a few UI quibbles here and there, but
that's true of every app. Generally speaking, it was pretty
good.</p> <p>But. It turns out that the MUI version of IE
doesn't support add-ons. Don't ask me why. That means I couldn't
install AdBlock. And holy cow: during the hour or so that I
spent checking things out I felt like I was under assault. My
browser was deluged with gigant