# Very annoying 'popovers' lately, any way to get rid of them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 8, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-annoying-popovers-lately-any-way-to-get-rid-of-them/688011 "2014-05-08T21:44:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-annoying-popovers-lately-any-way-to-get-rid-of-them/688011/21 "2014-05-10T22:40:48Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Is there something like Noscript for Chrome? Yeah, it’s called ScriptSafe, but when you install it, it blocks all of your website link windows (or whatever they’re called), so it’s kinda useless. ---
**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-annoying-popovers-lately-any-way-to-get-rid-of-them/688011/22 "2014-05-11T01:50:11Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > after a few days I have to say that NoScript sucks, there is so much that it blocks that you may as well go back to rotary phones. I need a better solution. It does for a while. But you get used to it, and as your list of allowed sites grows, it ceases to be so much of a problem. After a while it becomes reflex to allow the sites you want as you visit them. It is very revealing just how much some sites track what you do. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-annoying-popovers-lately-any-way-to-get-rid-of-them/688011/23 "2014-05-11T02:14:41Z")
Me bad. What you said as a “popover” is really an overlay, as already described by others. It’s one of the trending marketing tools. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-annoying-popovers-lately-any-way-to-get-rid-of-them/688011/24 "2014-05-11T02:23:04Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > As I’ve mentioned many times on this board, I run my browser with JavaScript disabled at all times, except when I specifically know that I need it enabled (which happens for things like paying bills on-line, or looking at YouTube videos, I think). I hardly EVER have the kinds of problems described here or in the many other threads about web browsing annoyances. Well I’ve never in my life run a JavaScript blocker and I haven’t had a problem with popups in maybe 5 years. Probably longer. I do run AdBlock, but that does not block JavaScript wholesale, just scripts known to be/guessed to be ads. So I don’t think that touting a JavaScript blocker is the be-all-end-all answer to people’s popup problems. It can be an extremely un-elegant answer to a problem that can either be solved with an ad blocker or maybe just a malware scan. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-annoying-popovers-lately-any-way-to-get-rid-of-them/688011/25 "2014-05-13T06:50:50Z")
If you guys can find some examples of these overlays, I might be able to write a filter to block them. I’ve so far identified a set of rules that killed the overlays in my test group, but I only found a few sites that use them and that’s not enough to eliminate false positives. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-annoying-popovers-lately-any-way-to-get-rid-of-them/688011/26 "2014-05-14T07:22:03Z")
The one I get linked to most often is [Upworthy](http://www.upworthy.com/), which always asks me to like them on Facebook when I read and scroll down to the bottom of the article. Popovers are used for log-ins on many sites, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-annoying-popovers-lately-any-way-to-get-rid-of-them/688011.md?page=1)