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I don’t love the title. They have continued to block pop-ups. They didn’t keep up with the arms race when websites designed something new that acts like a pop up and is a lot harder to block. And even then, an ad blocker, which some browsers implement does some of the legwork

The title to me implied the initial blocks had been removed which seemed odd since most browsers still offer that per page

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probable_possum@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Thanks for the TL; DR. This was helpful.

I didn’t want to click that link and I’m happy that I didn’t.

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tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

They didn’t keep up with the arms race when websites designed something new that acts like a pop up and is a lot harder to block.

The “Behind the Overlay” extension for Firefox and Chrome doesn’t have the ability to intelligently detect whether something is an desired overlay or an undesired overlay, but it can pretty consistently, with a click on its button or a keyboard shortcut, remove them.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/behind_the_overlay/

I imagine that someone could probably make something fancier, with a lot of logic, kinda like Dark Reader or something, to guess whether a given overlay is “obnoxious” and just hide it by default.

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