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I am really beginning to hate browsing the web these days... Especially poop up dialogs asking for my email as soon as the mouse cursor leaves the active browse

I am really beginning to hate browsing the web these days... Especially poop up dialogs asking for my email as soon as the mouse cursor leaves the active browser screen. With an average of 20 browser tabs open, while one is loading I often go to click on another to check on something, and this instantly triggers a flurry of popups begging me to stay/subscribe. Also the retargeted ads that follow me everywhere now. MOST of them are for companies where I have ALREADY bought something, so they are wasting their ad spend on chasing an existing customer, not a likely prospect. This has made me resolve to try and make the web a less shitty place, one web site at a time - and I have ensured that my web projects absolutely DO NOT have any popups or cross site tracking in there (aside from normal analytics that is only used in house). [I accidentally mis-typed 'pop up' above but LOVE the Freudian slip so will leave it as-is].

kaila 10y ago
I assumed poop up was intentional and thought it was pretty clever. Glad you left it as-is!
- Jaruzel 10y ago
  Ditto!
majewsky 10y ago
And you don't use an adblocker yet?
- laurent123456 10y ago
  It feels like ad-blockers are less and less effective at blocking ads these days, in particular I don't think any of them block these annoying JS popups.
  - executesorder66 10y ago
    uBlock Origin has never failed me. Even for annoying "non-ad" crap like that.
- dredmorbius 10y ago
  Ad-blockers don't catch everything. They're not available for all browsers. Quite notably, Chrome on Android, and any application that incorporates the Chrome core for its web presentation.
yAnonymous 10y ago
>Especially poop up dialogs asking for my email as soon as the mouse cursor leaves the active browser screen I've been thinking of creating a public uBlock filter list for websites with newsletter overlays/popups...
- cyborgx7 10y ago
  You should do that. I'd probably use it.
- lunchables 10y ago
  Please do this. Anyone remember pop-up ads? Notice how every web browser has an integrated pop-up blocker? They were a thing of the past. So now, apparently advertisers think we somehow actually wanted pop-up ads all along and implemented them with CSS overlays. We seriously need to band together and stop this shit. It is absolutely infuriating. Who in the world wants to visit a website and then be stopped with a huge ad to join your stupid fucking mailing list? And I'm sure they point to their 2% conversion rate as proof that it works. What they don't know is the other 98% of people cannot fucking STAND it.
- dredmorbius 10y ago
  I'd made a CSS style that defeated many of these. Problem being that it also defeats some standard Website features, so needs an overrides list. I was told it voided my Internet warranty.... http://pastebin.com/6sZEkCaR http://pastebin.com/6sZEkCaR https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/a2f4rlrphh0c_nrhsnjgta https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/a2f4rlrphh0c_nrhsnjgta
brainfire 10y ago
I always respond to the pop-up newsletter signup solicitations with "abuse@(sitedomain.tld)".

kaila 10y ago

I assumed poop up was intentional and thought it was pretty clever. Glad you left it as-is!

Jaruzel 10y ago
Ditto!

majewsky 10y ago

And you don't use an adblocker yet?

laurent123456 10y ago
It feels like ad-blockers are less and less effective at blocking ads these days, in particular I don't think any of them block these annoying JS popups.
- executesorder66 10y ago
  uBlock Origin has never failed me. Even for annoying "non-ad" crap like that.
dredmorbius 10y ago
Ad-blockers don't catch everything. They're not available for all browsers. Quite notably, Chrome on Android, and any application that incorporates the Chrome core for its web presentation.

yAnonymous 10y ago

>Especially poop up dialogs asking for my email as soon as the mouse cursor leaves the active browser screen I've been thinking of creating a public uBlock filter list for websites with newsletter overlays/popups...

cyborgx7 10y ago
You should do that. I'd probably use it.
lunchables 10y ago
Please do this. Anyone remember pop-up ads? Notice how every web browser has an integrated pop-up blocker? They were a thing of the past. So now, apparently advertisers think we somehow actually wanted pop-up ads all along and implemented them with CSS overlays. We seriously need to band together and stop this shit. It is absolutely infuriating. Who in the world wants to visit a website and then be stopped with a huge ad to join your stupid fucking mailing list? And I'm sure they point to their 2% conversion rate as proof that it works. What they don't know is the other 98% of people cannot fucking STAND it.
dredmorbius 10y ago
I'd made a CSS style that defeated many of these. Problem being that it also defeats some standard Website features, so needs an overrides list. I was told it voided my Internet warranty.... http://pastebin.com/6sZEkCaR http://pastebin.com/6sZEkCaR https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/a2f4rlrphh0c_nrhsnjgta https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/a2f4rlrphh0c_nrhsnjgta

brainfire 10y ago

I always respond to the pop-up newsletter signup solicitations with "abuse@(sitedomain.tld)".