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Comment by leephillips | Hacker News Reader

Flagged due to two popup advertisements, that somehow got past my popup blocker. Salon did not used to be this bad.

I'm using Firefox with Adblock Plus 2.2.4 and Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon 0.7 and Flashblock 1.5.17 and did not get any pop-ups. I have not seen any in years. I'm just saying in case you wondered how you could block them. I understand that this isn't really the point here however as many other visitors may be bothered by intrusive ads.

I guess Chrome's built-in popup blocker is not as powerful.

Wow. I do wish these filtering tools we have would give an indication of just how obnoxious the site is. I didn't see anything either, but I might have linked it on twitter or something if not for your parent comment.

I have a mostly similar stack, plus I use NoScript and added every news site to the JS blacklist.

Tangent:

I am a paying customer for many online sites, but haven't yet found a news site I'd like to pay for. If a publication like Reuters or Al Jazeera charged membership fees and could develop an intelligent online community like HN, then I'd probably pay for that.

Also on Chrome, which blocked it just fine, until I clicked on the page to close a _modal_ advertisement, where clicking is fair game to init a popup. Dirty yes, but a popup blocker is not going to block an HTML modal or `open` upon user interaction.

what i usually do is right click, select inspect element, and delete the element (and any sort of blanket/covering over the actual content). This gives them no opportunity to force javascript popups.

I dont know if salon works without it, but just remove javascript entirely from bad actors. Noscript is my best friend.

I might have been partly incorrect above, in that what I was describing as a popup might have been the initial modal ad. That would explain why I saw the second, actual, popup, and why Chrome reported blocking several additional popups after that. Still, a horrible experience served up by Salon, resulting in me not reading the article.

No pop-ups, but lots of weird Asynchronous loading going on in the background. I found that deleting the advert that's about halfway down the text from the DOM tree improved matters.

I'm only running ghostery with nothing else added onto my chrome install.

Nothing popped up for me either, I think you might want to look into your pop-up blockers.

No popups, it definitely helps to just use Chrome's builtin javascript white-list.

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