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>Especially poop up dialogs asking for my email as soon as the mouse cursor leaves the active browser screen

I've been thinking of creating a public uBlock filter list for websites with newsletter overlays/popups...



Please do this. Anyone remember pop-up ads? Notice how every web browser has an integrated pop-up blocker? They were a thing of the past. So now, apparently advertisers think we somehow actually wanted pop-up ads all along and implemented them with CSS overlays.

We seriously need to band together and stop this shit. It is absolutely infuriating. Who in the world wants to visit a website and then be stopped with a huge ad to join your stupid fucking mailing list? And I'm sure they point to their 2% conversion rate as proof that it works. What they don't know is the other 98% of people cannot fucking STAND it.


I'd made a CSS style that defeated many of these. Problem being that it also defeats some standard Website features, so needs an overrides list.

I was told it voided my Internet warranty....

http://pastebin.com/6sZEkCaR

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/a2f4rlrphh0c_nrhsnjgta


You should do that. I'd probably use it.




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