In the middle working tier when Popup comes, I do not like them, at all. While they are sometimes
used by sites to make part of the website’s functionality available, they are
more often than not used for advertisement. And while there is nothing wrong
with advertising in general, popup ads tend to be one of the most annoying
forms of advertisement that you encounter on the Internet. The core reason
being that new windows are spawned, that you need to close manually at one
point or the other. That’s fine if one window spawns, but there are sites out there
that bombard you with popups.
With Firefox, I have NoScript which takes care of the popups. I
can’t really say when I have seen the last unrequested popup show up in the web
browser. For Chrome, things have been different. While you get your assortment
of ad blocking scripts for the browser, I found the JavaScript Popup Blocker extension to be more reliable when it
comes to blocking popup windows in the browser.
The extension comes with two modes. First white-list mode, which
is the default mode after installation, and then blacklist mode. White-list basically blocks all popups automatically, except on pages that you have
explicitly white-listed in the options of the extension. Blacklist mode on the
other hand turns this around by only blocking popup windows on pages that you
have added to the list. The latter may be useful if you visit that annoying one
site regularly that is spawning pop-ups like crazy.
Blocked popups are
indicated in the browser’s address bar, next to the bookmarking star. Depending
on the page you are on, you may see icons that indicate a blacklisted or
whitelisted page, and a blocked popup.
A click on the
blocked popup icon in the address bar displayed information about the page the
site tried to spawn, with options to open it by clicking on the link, or by
going to the blocking preferences of the extension to add it to the whitelist
or blacklist, depending on your configuration.
JavaScript Popup Blocker for Google Chrome is a handy
extension for Chrome users who are plagued by popups.
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