Within hours of its release, AOL 8.0 was downloaded 1.7 million times, America Online Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jon Miller said during AOL's raucous launch celebration at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. He also announced a new policy: AOL will no longer accept third-party pop-up ads. The change comes in response to user feedback, and is intended as a mark of AOL's "back to basics" return to focusing on its customers, he said. 

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