Comment by cyberferret | Hacker News Reader

Comment by cyberferret | Hacker News Reader

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].

>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...

You should do that. I'd probably use it.

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.

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

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/a2f4rlrphh0c_nrhsnjgta

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

Ditto!

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

And you don't use an adblocker yet?

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.

uBlock Origin has never failed me. Even for annoying "non-ad" crap like that.

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.

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