website in-page popup blocking

[Drummerdude]

So, I'm not asking about your traditional pop-up blocker, because I use Firefox and AdblockPlus, and haven't seen a tradition popup in ...I'm gonna say years. What I'm talking about, are those freaking annoying in-page popups that force you to click the " close " button before you can do anything else in the webpage. Is there a special name for these freaking annoying things, and can I block them with AdblockPlus somehow?

 

[Drummerdude]

No web gurus here at all?

 

[Virgorising]

No web gurus here at all?

I am no way a web guru....and those are annoying and ubiquitous, but they are how sites generate revenue, are built into the sites....and, my take is we jus gotta live with them and hitting the X is jus part of life.

I believe there is no way we can do away with them.

Will I be thrilled if some actual guru tells us no, we can do away with them and here's how? U bet.
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PS: I now think of this as something akin to always having to hit allow scripts to run temporarily on a given page. Part of life. Course, the latter has an underlying protection foundation, and the former does not, it is what it is.

 

[paperwastage]

So, I'm not asking about your traditional pop-up blocker, because I use Firefox and AdblockPlus, and haven't seen a tradition popup in ...I'm gonna say years. What I'm talking about, are those freaking annoying in-page popups that force you to click the " close " button before you can do anything else in the webpage. Is there a special name for these freaking annoying things, and can I block them with AdblockPlus somehow?

disable javascript, and those shouldn't show up....

but you might not get the full site functionality.... some browsers/plugins can selectively block js scripts

 

[Virgorising]

but you might not get the full site functionality..

Yep, is true.....that's why I don't do this, I just accept they are part of life and try not to get angry at the sites. Same deal when I use the free version of something like Superantispy....and that they go on asking me to upgrade.