Then came this disgusting creation that you are seeing, which I believe is technically called a “JavaScript overlay”. Then what happened is that people who design websites figured out that they could no longer use pop-up windows, because people hated them, and instead of saying “Well, since people hated that, we shouldn’t do anything like that” they said “How can we achieve effectively the same thing in a way that will work-around the fact that most browsers block pop-up windows/tabs?” This used to be a huge scourge on the web, especially with pop-up ads. ![]() What Safari is offering to block is new Safari windows (or tabs) which are spawned by web pages. ![]() I’ve set “Websites” prefs to Block and Notify all sites, but it doesn’t stop this one from appearing every time I go to this website.
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