Or, as Indiana Jones III would say, “Nazis Popups. I hate these guys.”
The page has a set of common popup types you can click on (my software blocked all of these), and some less common types (some blocked, some got through). There’s also a review of “good” popups (3/4 of which are blocked on my machine), and a catalog of popup blocking software.
All that’s missing is an analysis of what sort of settings on what software will block the stuff that got through.
For the record, I’m currently using the popup blocker in Slimbrowser and also using PopupCop (which occasionally catches something that Slimbrowser lets slip through). That keeps me with a pretty popup-free browsing experience, though not even they can protect against the intrusive horrors at TVGuide.com.
The new IE is supposed to have an M$-bundled popup blocker in it. We’ll see how that works, one of these days.
(via GeekPress)
Wow, Mozilla Firebird only succumbed to the Mouseover PopUps. I’m VERY impressed. *croon* Good browser, goooood browser. *pat, pat*
Whereas I had no problem with those, but got hit on Floating Popups, Chromeless, and Stick Popups.
Part of that is also settings. I do not have all the blocking stuff turned on, because there are some sites that it truly frells up (and whitelisting them doesn’t always work). So, as with all security measures, it’s a compromise with accessibility.
For the record, I have Firefox running with “out of the box” settings.