Poper Blocker

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by Hadron, Oct 16, 2017.

  1. Hadron

    Hadron Registered Member

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    Over the past few years, browsers' built-in popup blockers have done a pretty good job at blocking popups, but in recent times websites have been getting more tricky in circumventing browser's popup blockers with many being activated simply by clicking on a page.

    I have been testing popup blockers for Vivaldi, Chrome and Firefox and without doubt (in my opinion and many others), the best is Poper Blocker. It also blocks popunders and overlays. You can also whitelist any site, if needed, although I haven't found the need as it is very accurate at doing its job.

    Direct links for Vivaldi, Chrome & Firefox addons.


    Do you find this popup blocker as good as I do?
     
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  2. TairikuOkami

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    Indeed, I would have never thought, that I would have to install a popup blocker ever again, but it has become unbearable lately.

    Absolutely, it works 100%. I only have to whitelist webpages, where I have to login via Facebook.
     
  3. zapjb

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    Thank you!
     
  4. PEllis

    PEllis Guest

    Thanks for posting. I have installed it on my devices. Looks good.
     
  5. RockLobster

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    If you go to cnn.com
    That webpage tries to make your browser connect to all these domains

    sharethrough.com
    bing.com
    outbrain.com
    imrworldwide.com
    criteo.com
    bounceexchange.com
    krxd.net
    turner.com
    usabilla.come
    googletagservices.com
    optimizely.com
    chartbeat.com
    cnn.io
    rubiconproject.com
    giga.com
    yieldmo.com
    amazon-adsystem.com
    ugdturner.com
    fastly.net


    There's all your junk content that bogs down your browser, multiply that by the number of tabs. If your browser only loads cnn.com there's no ads, no popups, just the news.
    I use an android browser that doesn't load anything from 3rd party domains, but lists them all so you can choose to unblock any that are required for functionality and then you can save that configuration.
     
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  6. ronjor

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  7. TairikuOkami

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    Indeed, funny how many times they stress out, that they collect Non-Personal Information (IP, GEO, URLs, clickstream). :rolleyes: Luckily it can be disabled, at least they claim so.
     
  8. guest

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    The user can opt out, but some functionality will not be available anymore:
    Comments:
     
  9. pegas

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    Installed, disabled the collecting data, opened a webpage (where I know is an overlay ad), nothing was blocked, uninstalled, end of story.

    They have pretty disturbing uninstall survey, to my liking.
     
  10. PEllis

    PEllis Guest

    I have also uninstalled it.
     
  11. zapjb

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    Ok then what is a good popup blocker?
     
  12. NiteRanger

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    You can try Popup Blocker (strict)
     
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