"Mitchell Stoltz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
> > Mitchell Stoltz wrote:
> >
> >> What if you could turn the blocking on for the current site via the
> >> context menu? Would that be convenient enough?
> >
> >
> > No. Also, as soon as I am on the site, it is too late to stop anything
> > in the onload handler.
>
>
> Well, you won't be scarred for life by seeing one popup ad. You find a
> site with popup ads, you block window.open for that site.
If you have many windows open, it's often impossible to figure out which
site you need to blacklist.
> What people seem to be arguing for is a heuristic for distinguishing a
>
> popup ad from a new window that we actually want to see. Before we go
further,
>
> let's try to define that heuristic. Doe it necessarily involve a user
> click? You could still have a site opening popups or pop-unders every
> time the user clicks on a link or form field. What's the gain?
To me, that's not any more annoying than a site showing a 5-second
interstitial between when I click on a link and when it sends me to the link
URL. And we can't prevent that type of ad.
It's true that with the interstitial I can bail out of the site as soon as I
see what the site is doing, but with both a link-interstitial and an onclick
pop-up, I'll know what site triggered the ad, and I can avoid falling into
the same trap a second time without having to edit prefs.
