Popup Blockers
Browser Popup Blockers
When Did They Stop Working?
I don't know about you. But I remember the browsers of today when they where just barley starting to get awesome. I remember when I first found out about Firefox's and Opera's tabs. And how much more feature packed and stable they where then Internet Explorer. Which at the time was really the only browser Windows users used other than Netscape. Which was quite popular. But not nearly as much as IE.
But one of the biggest features for me was the popup blockers that where built into these third party browsers. They did a great job of blocking popups. Pretty much any popup was blocked. And you had to authorize them one by one. And you could set certain sites to allow all popups. That feature is still in today but they don't seem to work as well. Today they seem to only block around twenty percent of the popups. Which gets annoying. Especially because they used to work so well.
Although there are extensions to most browsers today that are adding this popup blocking awesomeness back, this is only in response to the browser failing to do so. And I still have no idea why the quality of built in popup protection has decreased.