best popup blocker
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:00 pm
Just a moment ago I lost my browser session due to some very irritating "system doctor" popup trying to tell me my system is infected and I need to install blabla bla. There's nothing else to do then force quit Firefox and restart the browser, as this popup totally takes over every control.
Normally Firefox is pretty good at blocking stuff like this, but every single time it doesn't it's one too many. Should I go back to javascript-less browsing?
And it's not that I browse dubious sites. These things happen on the average tech site. I read a bit about it and the "webmasters" of these sites can't do much about it since they sell the advertising space to some agency, which sells it as well, etc. So very hard to control what ads come on the site. I don't completely believe this, because if you run a site you are responsible for what's on it. Go find a better add agency then..
As I'm on a mac I'm pretty safe but I can't help but think about these poor people who've never heard of force-quit and just click on the popups trying to remove them and with that installing all this spyware stuff...
Normally Firefox is pretty good at blocking stuff like this, but every single time it doesn't it's one too many. Should I go back to javascript-less browsing?
And it's not that I browse dubious sites. These things happen on the average tech site. I read a bit about it and the "webmasters" of these sites can't do much about it since they sell the advertising space to some agency, which sells it as well, etc. So very hard to control what ads come on the site. I don't completely believe this, because if you run a site you are responsible for what's on it. Go find a better add agency then..
As I'm on a mac I'm pretty safe but I can't help but think about these poor people who've never heard of force-quit and just click on the popups trying to remove them and with that installing all this spyware stuff...