And they have to explicitly specify the $popup option on a filter, filter rules will not apply to pop-ups by default. This is mainly a feature for filter list authors and the recommendation for them is to add clear cases only, not something that the user might ever open intentionally. This is why using the pop-up blocker isn’t recommended for Adblock Plus users. As I said, the mechanism in Adblock Plus is a very dumb one and won’t do anything to prevent false positives. And then of course, not every new window opened is something that the user doesn’t want - when adding a pop-up blocking rule one needs to be very certain that it will match unwanted pop-ups and nothing else. As far as I know, that’s the best a Firefox extension can do. First of all, you understood correctly: Adblock Plus is closing pop-ups after they were opened.
There are issues with this approach of course.
#Adblock plus popup windows#
It’s a very dumb mechanism - it doesn’t try to do anything fancy, it simply closes pop-up windows that match the rules. It isn’t meant to replace the built-in pop-up blocker however, merely to complement it in the few cases where it fails. In the end I realized that implementing an additional pop-up blocker in Adblock Plus was unavoidable. A large percentage of issue reports that we received was about pop-up windows opened by a bunch of misbehaving websites. Some websites are abusing this possibility by opening pop-up windows in addition to performing the requested action. If it thinks that the user meant to trigger an action it will let the pop-up appear. The main issue of this pop-up blocker however is that it tries to recognize user’s intention. Advertising via pop-up (or pop-under) windows is now a rare exception even though it used to be very common. In fact, this pop-up blocker did a terrific job to eliminate pop-ups on the web. The built-in pop-up blockerįirefox already has a pretty good pop-up blocker of its own. I wanted to explain what this feature is about and why there are no big announcements about it. There is a semi-hidden new feature in Adblock Plus 2.0: a pop-up blocker. The only extensions I have are Adblock Plus 1.8.3 and google docs 0.7 which is disabled. Adblock Plus and (a little) more On the pop-up blocker in Adblock Plus Yes my popup looks the same as GuestAgain s but in english.
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