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		lapcat 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups Like... scrolling down the page? Anyway, forbidding pages from loading secondary content would break millions of sites, including the most visited sites in the world. That would be equivalent to completely redesigning HTML/JS.

econ 3 months ago [–]

Have a nice small notification that a "pop-up" was blocked. Wouldn't you like to see it now wouldn't you?

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