Q: Are Safari popups inevitable?

I still get popups on both iOS and MacOS. FWIW, even after a couple system upgrades, hard reboots, and so on. "No Popups" ALWAYS specified in Safari, from the time I purchased these devices! I always figured the "No Popups" setting was rather symbolic. Advertisers have always found a way around it. It seems some popups are inevitable. It's a hard life.

(FWIW I do not wish continually to browse strictly no-cookie incognito, as for example Techmeme requires a cookie for "Open stories in new tab" and Gmail needs cookies to make nice. I think even the websites for Apple, discussions, and Amazon love to have cookies. Maybe my bank and doctors and Social Security!)

Is my experience typical?

iOS 10.0.2

Posted on Oct 23, 2016 8:21 AM

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by Eric Root,

Eric Root Oct 23, 2016 10:53 AM in response to F J Poblam
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Oct 23, 2016 10:53 AM in response to F J Poblam

Safari – Popup takes over

Safari – Popup takes over (2)

Popup remover – Scam Zapper
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F J Poblam Oct 23, 2016 4:50 PM in response to Eric Root
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Oct 23, 2016 4:50 PM in response to Eric Root

Thanks for your response, Eric, but those are not the sorts of popups I'm getting. Much of what I get (probably 85%) is the familiar website interstitial. For example, New York Times or Washington Post "click now to subscribe". Perhaps not surprising, but nonetheless popups. Others occur when scrolling news articles down into the content. When arriving upon an image that ol' hidden pixel notifier—no doubt—triggers some sort of notifier to the news server which in turn does me the unwelcome favor of shoving out one of them danged popups. Stuff like that. Seems as if Safari is just saying, "Whatever…"

I am not impressed.
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