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This is great. Safari has settings for this but plenty of sites (e.g. yahoo) punch through them anyway. The web has become so incredibly user-hostile in the last decade.

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It has always been user hostile since the days of pop-over ads, pop-under ads, obnoxious browser toolbars that were basically malware, etc. It seems like since around the year 2000 it’s been a nonstop fight between people who want to extract money and advertising impressions out of users versus people trying to keep the web user friendly. I think we only had maybe a 5 year run of the web being user-friendly at the beginning, and that was just because people hadn’t quite yet figured out how to extract money from web usage.

Well, that, and the Web was created a bit before the commercialisation and privatisation of the Internet as a whole.

Since the Terms of Service of the Internet running on the National Science Foundation's backbones actually prohibited commercial activity, that put a crimp in the style of people who would try to extract money from its usage, don't you think?

The whole "user interaction" permissions model should just be scrapped for an unmute button in the browser chrome.

There’s no way to have permissions that depend on things that happen inside the content box / “unsafe zone” that can’t be gamed.

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