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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The one I get linked to most often is Upworthy, 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.