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| Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| Block popups - again |
Have you noticed that more and more popups keep sneaking past your popup blockers? No better example is there than the infamous DrudgeReport's website.
What's the deal? Well, there's more than one way to open a browser window and now that those cruddy advertisers are realizing that their current method is getting the reject, they're starting to employ more drastic measures.
Namely, advertisers now use flash and other plugins to open popup (and pop-under) windows.
Yet, fear not - the programmers over at Mozilla are on top of the situation. Come on, you knew I was going to bring up Firefox.
Already implemented in Firefox is the ability to kick its popup blocker into a higher gear, taking a more liberal approach to killing windows. They haven't yet made it visible in their preferences menu, because there's not an epidemic yet, but the ability is already there now
If you want to be intrepid and ahead of the game, you can test this newer, stronger popup blocking by going to the firefox "tweak page" about:config, and adding the integer privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins=2.
There are details at 'uneasysilence' here.
The only caveat is, some legitimate popups might get killed in the process, so - tell the websites you visit to stop using those cruddy ads (because I like the DrudgeReport too).
- tollie |
posted by Tollie Williams @ 12:50 PM   |
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