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I'm hoping that someone will come up with a plugin that detects and eliminates "HTML popups."

I've tried to do so myself, but I can't find a way of determining if an element is going to occlude another.

Even if you do, it will kill navigation flyouts and similar if done naively.

If those ... "features" ... prove to unreliable due to collateral damage from annoyances filters, they'll be abandoned. And good godamned riddance.

Do you think the vast majority of users will tolerate the internet being broken until websites catch on, or will they just disable the extension and write bad reviews that Amazon stopped working?

The majority of Internet users != the majority of Internet value.

Drive off key market segments and you'll see shift. The smart money and big money is tech savvy.

oh no, not that. anything but that.

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