Sun Pop Ups

[El_Baz]

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?

[Geek-9pm]

Me Too!   
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?

[patio]

Upgrade to AdBlocker Plus, then

[BC_Programmer]

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.

[El_Baz]

Upgrade to AdBlocker Plus, then

Thanks, I have got the latest ADP.

[El_Baz]

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.

[BC_Programmer]

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.

[El_Baz]

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

Thanks for your replies.