Comment by bambax
13 hours ago
Pop-ups aren't the problem and they never were. Ads are. The solution is not to block pop-ups, it's to use adblock, and for that we have uBlock Origin. Don't try to browse the web without it.
13 hours ago
Pop-ups aren't the problem and they never were. Ads are. The solution is not to block pop-ups, it's to use adblock, and for that we have uBlock Origin. Don't try to browse the web without it.
Adblock won't block the "subscribe for 2 free articles" popups.
Of course it will. At least the second time, after you tell it that '.popup-subscribe-modal' should never be seen again.
It's not '.popup-subscribe-modal', it's often a random string spit out at build time that changes with every deployment.
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Nor will pop-up blocking I'm afraid.
the whole point of the article is that browsers should try to block popups that don't literally open a new window too. Although I doubt it's really feasible without doing it on a one-by-one basis like ad blockers
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