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I think it would make sense to block modal boxes that show up without any user action, but allow them if there's user action in the chain of events that leads t
by kijin 9y ago
I think it would make sense to block modal boxes that show up without any user action, but allow them if there's user action in the chain of events that leads to their appearance. That's how most pop-up blockers work, and it's simple but very effective.
- bunderbunder 9y agoThat worked well at first, and then pop-up ads switched from generating the pop-ups as soon as you visited the page to generating them in response to clicking links on the page. I'm guessing we'll see similar goofiness with modals. And that we'll reach a similar terminal state where nobody uses them anymore, except for your bank, who will doggedly refuse to let you see your monthly statement unless you display your modal blocker first.
- kijin 9y agoYour idea of a terminal state sounds much better than the status quo where everybody and you bank throws modals at you. It's okay if it isn't perfect, as long as it gets rid of like 95% of annoying pop-ups.
- bunderbunder 9y agoAbsolutely. But it's depressing that the Web is such that we can never have nice things. I've taken to browsing with JavaScript disabled, and many sites' "no script" version of the page is just an impassioned plea for me to re-enable JavaScript so that they can do all the popups and tracking and whatnot that prompted me to turn it off in the first place.