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This is the new pop-under. Sites trying to serve as many ads as possible will open links with target=_blank and redirect the old window to an ad.
by teej 11y ago
This is the new pop-under. Sites trying to serve as many ads as possible will open links with target=_blank and redirect the old window to an ad.
- yxhuvud 11y agoYeah. This is amazingly irritating.
- happyslobro 11y agoSo that's what's happening! With uBlock, all I see is a flicker on the browser's tab bar, and my history is gone. It's still annoyingly retarded.
- gorhill 11y agoI did try to provide a fix for the history-lost case for when a popunder is blocked, but in the end I had to give up because there was no way to make it work reliably (using current extensions API). [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1028 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1028
- happyslobro 11y agoHa, no worries, I wouldn't have expected an ad blocker to know that for me, the dead tab and this new tab are semantically one. I'm just glad that the bad tab is dead. It's the ad that I was calling retarded :p Awesome work btw, it runs like greased lightning in FF nightly.
- eli 11y agoBut doing what you describe doesn't rely on this window.opener security issue, right? Of course any site that can open popups can open popups and then also redirect somewhere else. (Also, I'm not sure I've personally seen that)