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Software => Internet browsers => Topic started by: El_Baz on March 11, 2020, 08:13:51 AM

Title: Sun Pop Ups
Post by: El_Baz on March 11, 2020, 08:13:51 AM

I was on the Sun newspaper site a few hours ago, now I'm getting pop ups from the Sun. How do I stop these?

Title: Re: Sun Pop Ups
Post by: Geek-9pm on March 11, 2020, 12:40:16 PM

Me Too!   8)
Not from Sun, but a local rag going our of business.
Maybe somebody has a good answer. I tried an AD-Blocker, but it has lost its power.  :'(
Anybody?

Title: Re: Sun Pop Ups
Post by: patio on March 11, 2020, 04:03:56 PM

Upgrade to AdBlocker Plus, then

Title: Re: Sun Pop Ups
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 11, 2020, 04:47:34 PM

Check your browser configuration and disable web notifications for the sites in question. Web notifications are a W3C standard that allows websites to send push notifications to your browser. Presumably, everybody who reviewed it was a naive idiot.

With Firefox/Waterfox there is an about:config setting that disables the whole thing (dom.webnotifications.enabled). In Chrome you can search settings for "Notifications" which should take you to the place which has the allowed sites, blocked sites, and the toggle for whether websites can ask to pester you.

Title: Re: Sun Pop Ups
Post by: El_Baz on March 12, 2020, 04:34:47 AM

Quote from: patio on March 11, 2020, 04:03:56 PM

Upgrade to AdBlocker Plus, then

Thanks, I have got the latest ADP.

Title: Re: Sun Pop Ups
Post by: El_Baz on March 12, 2020, 04:37:38 AM

Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 11, 2020, 04:47:34 PM

Check your browser configuration and disable web notifications for the sites in question. Web notifications are a W3C standard that allows websites to send push notifications to your browser. Presumably, everybody who reviewed it was a naive idiot.

With Firefox/Waterfox there is an about:config setting that disables the whole thing (dom.webnotifications.enabled). In Chrome you can search settings for "Notifications" which should take you to the place which has the allowed sites, blocked sites, and the toggle for whether websites can ask to pester you.

Thanks will do. Gosh I didn't there were such naive idiots like me. A lesson learned.

Title: Re: Sun Pop Ups
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 12, 2020, 03:01:58 PM

You misunderstand. I meant the people who had reviewed the notifications feature to be added to browsers and thought it should be standard. It's a stupid feature and pretty much nobody wants websites to give them 'notifications', it just causes annoyance and confusion.

Title: Re: Sun Pop Ups
Post by: El_Baz on March 13, 2020, 04:52:40 AM

I hope I'm not tempting fate, these pesky popups have gone away.

Thanks for your replies.