Pop-up ads nowadays

Pawnless Endgame · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:10

Pop-ups from the 90s became history thanks to Firefox and Opera (and IE about a million years later). Now though in the 2010s, we have a new type of pop-up ad that bypasses Adblock/Ublock probably due to it being non-HTML or something. Is there a way to block these? Granted the Santander one is justified, but the others serve no use to me as I find them intrusive like the old pop-ups. Hell, the last screenshot (The Daily Mash) doesn't even hold any text!

neil_g · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:14

I think its normally a div overlay on the page. Bloody annoying considering popups are considered bad practice.

drunkenmaster · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:29

Adblock plus popup add on......... I never see those pop ups.

Nix · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:30

<3 AdBlock

touch · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:31

Nix said:
<3 AdBlock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

MooMoo444 · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:32

How can you be against popups when you can get 70% percent off your first game?

Flubble · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:32

i hate the pop ups asking about your experience of the site when you have only been it 2 seconds :mad:

Nix · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:36

touch said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Not quite.

That would be applicable to stockbrokers.

Flubble said:
i hate the pop ups asking about your experience of the site when you have only been it 2 seconds

The worst for me are the ones which try to circumvent the AdBlock.

e.g. Forbes won't let you access their site. The Guardian tries to guilt you into paying, etc.

SonniLombardi · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:41

I Use Adblock Plus on Chrome and never get any of those popups.

Diddums · 28 Feb 2016 at 21:49

Forbes can do one. When I saw that they were moaning about my Adblocker I closed the tab and haven't been back since.

Destination · 28 Feb 2016 at 22:02

Watching people click those fb links to, you'll never believe what happened next, or see fifteen ways to boil an egg, and the quagmire of how they attempt to navigate to page two without subscribing to fifteen different popups is amazing.

Malevolence · 28 Feb 2016 at 22:02

Do you have the anti-adblock options ticked in the uBlock dashboard?

As for those damn pop-ups, pretty sure you can block the frame on some of them.

aardvark · 28 Feb 2016 at 22:06

as above - adblocker.
any site that says turn it off never gets visited again.

there was one site that i like and asked to turn off adbloker as it was losing them money so i did only to find that some of their ads were very large ones and animated - slowed my pc to a crawl and i have a 4970k/gtx970, it was ridiculous.

Rroff · 28 Feb 2016 at 22:14

aardvark said:
as above - adblocker.
any site that says turn it off never gets visited again.

there was one site that i like and asked to turn off adbloker as it was losing them money so i did only to find that some of their ads were very large ones and animated - slowed my pc to a crawl and i have a 4970k/gtx970, it was ridiculous.

I actually try to avoid blocking ads, etc. to much, but way to many pages of late are just ridiculously loaded up with them to the point performance and/or navigation suffers if you don't block a certain amount

Pawnless Endgame · 28 Feb 2016 at 22:20

Malevolence said:
Do you have the anti-adblock options ticked in the uBlock dashboard?

As for those damn pop-ups, pretty sure you can block the frame on some of them.

Yes I use uBlock, and I didn't know about those settings!! Thanks a million :-)

Rroff said:
I actually try to avoid blocking ads, etc. to much, but way to many pages of late are just ridiculously loaded up with them to the point performance and/or navigation suffers if you don't block a certain amount

Yeah I don't mind the Google ads as they appear next to the search results. The ads I campaign against are the pop-overs / pop-unders.

Sandycheeks · 28 Feb 2016 at 22:50

Flubble said:
i hate the pop ups asking about your experience of the site when you have only been it 2 seconds

This, so very annoying.
Would you leave a review of your food at a restaurant before eating...NO!
The only site I turned adblock off for was Digital River.

marc2003 · 29 Feb 2016 at 00:30

Although I've always used an adblocker, I have no issue with websites detecting them and withholding content. It is their site and they are entitled to do whatever they like. Chances are, whatever I'm looking for isn't unique and I can just look elsewhere.

Angilion · 29 Feb 2016 at 02:24

marc2003 said:
Although I've always used an adblocker, I have no issue with websites detecting them and withholding content. It is their site and they are entitled to do whatever they like. Chances are, whatever I'm looking for isn't unique and I can just look elsewhere.

I use security software which also serves as an adblocker because of the way ads are usually delivered. I might accept being advertised at as the price I pay for content. I won't accept giving 50 sites free reign to run whatever they like on my PC, do cross-site scripting and sooner or later serve me malware even if they don't intend to because they have no control over the adverts they serve.

But I also have no issue with websites detecting security software and witholding content if someone is using it, for the same reason as you.

Amp34 · 29 Feb 2016 at 03:33

Many of them are JavaScript based so just turning that off can help. Obviously it's not much use for some things as it breaks a lot of web pages, but it does get past many of the "pay us now you've read x pages" ones.

Aldav · 29 Feb 2016 at 03:45

Diddums said:
Forbes can do one. When I saw that they were moaning about my Adblocker I closed the tab and haven't been back since.

Me too.

I think it's quite legitimate for sites to either block adblockers or push towards a subscription. After all, content isn't usually free to create so has to be paid for. However, if the site content is worth it, I will pay a subscription, but if they block adblockers, I will manage without the site. There aren't many sites I want badly enough to be willing to pay a subscription.