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> - No popups asking you to subscribe, register, or download a mobile app I’ve been wondering why ad blockers aren’t better about blocking these. I’m not sure

> - No popups asking you to subscribe, register, or download a mobile app I’ve been wondering why ad blockers aren’t better about blocking these. I’m not sure when the last time was when I got a popup on a website that was something I wanted to see.

strulovich 4y ago
I know very little of the subject. But maybe since ads generally arrive from other domains, making them easy to differentiate from the site’s content, while these popup are part of the website and are much harder to distinguish reliably, making it harder to build such a tool (which I assume does exist).
stanac 4y ago
uBlock origin has annoyances filters for exactly that. They aren't turn on by default.
- OrwellianChild 4y ago
  I did not know this - thank you!
rchaud 4y ago
Adblockers usually apply a combination of a network filter and a CSS filter to block the offending 3rd party script, and make the HTML element containing the ads invisible. While network filters are still working well, it's getting harder to block on-site elements like popups because web frameworks often generate nonsensical class names to apply on divs, to prevent Developer A's class names and styles from conflicting with Developer B's. So if previously you could successfully hide the HTML email popup container by looking for the class/id "ad-container", you won't be able to do that if the class/id changes to "xxgsgshhmahbgsg"
milsorgen 4y ago
I let my personalized Google feed on Android open links in Chrome and it is astounding how hostile some of these sites are getting in regards to their advertising. I had no idea it had gotten this bad again without at least some ad blocking. Popups haven't returned to any meaningful degree but even so surely this isn't sustainable as I would imagine a sizable portion of web users are not using ad blocking.

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> - No popups asking you to subscribe, register, or download a mobile app I’ve been wondering why ad blockers aren’t better about blocking these. I’m not sure

by criddell 4y ago

strulovich 4y ago
I know very little of the subject. But maybe since ads generally arrive from other domains, making them easy to differentiate from the site’s content, while these popup are part of the website and are much harder to distinguish reliably, making it harder to build such a tool (which I assume does exist).
stanac 4y ago
uBlock origin has annoyances filters for exactly that. They aren't turn on by default.
- OrwellianChild 4y ago
  I did not know this - thank you!
rchaud 4y ago
Adblockers usually apply a combination of a network filter and a CSS filter to block the offending 3rd party script, and make the HTML element containing the ads invisible. While network filters are still working well, it's getting harder to block on-site elements like popups because web frameworks often generate nonsensical class names to apply on divs, to prevent Developer A's class names and styles from conflicting with Developer B's. So if previously you could successfully hide the HTML email popup container by looking for the class/id "ad-container", you won't be able to do that if the class/id changes to "xxgsgshhmahbgsg"
milsorgen 4y ago
I let my personalized Google feed on Android open links in Chrome and it is astounding how hostile some of these sites are getting in regards to their advertising. I had no idea it had gotten this bad again without at least some ad blocking. Popups haven't returned to any meaningful degree but even so surely this isn't sustainable as I would imagine a sizable portion of web users are not using ad blocking.