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Chrome Update Kills Annoying Redirects and Trick-To-Click Popups (androidcentral.com)
Google is releasing updates to Chrome 64 and Chrome 65 to put a halt to page redirects and trick-to-click popups. The update is coming to both the desktop and Android apps. Android Central reports: With Chrome 64, every redirect from a third-party iframe will show an info bar instead of sending you off to some other page. This way we can decide if we want to navigate away or stay on the page we're looking at. If we're interacting with an iframe, like clicking an embedded YouTube video to open it on YouTube in a new tab, the request goes through as normal -- this only applies to things you didn't click and didn't expect to send you off. We can get more than we asked for when we are interacting with a web page, too. Google has two things planned that should help. With Chrome 65, websites that try to circumvent Chrome's pop-up blocker by opening a new tab for a thing you clicked while navigating the original tab to some other page will be blocked with the same style of info bar. This gives us the choice of taking a look versus being forced. Some abusive experiences are harder to autodetect, but Google plans to use the same type of data as its Safe Browsing feature to kill off deceptive page elements.
Does it also detect dupes on slashdot?
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
c'mon Slashdot, get your act together, this very same story is still on the Slashdot front page!
I know dupes are a common theme on Slashdot, but at least wait until the original drops off the homepage!
Slashdot: "Chrome Will Whack Website Bait-and-Switch Tactics"
does it still randomly flash a big pause symbol every two seconds when you try to watch an embedded youtube video? How is it that Google can't get Chrome to work with their own fucking video platform?
Next BeauHD post covers an exploding SpaceX rocket.
[...]websites that try to circumvent Chrome's pop-up blocker by opening a new tab for a thing you clicked while navigating the original tab to some other page[...]
That's a mighty long circumlocution to say "porn sites"...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
websites that try to circumvent Chrome's pop-up blocker by opening a new tab for a thing you clicked while navigating the original tab to some other page will be blocked with the same style of info bar.
Haha Wikifeet!
The irony being that there's already many posts complaining about the dupe
lucm, indeed.
One constant in the web which is that your browser is now made up of more things to protect you, then actually to make web site display correctly. I use Chrome but always amazes me how bloated it is, and I have 5 or more processes running just for one tab. The result of not making the browser faster, but rather trying to overly protect the browser from the OS. Considering what Chrome once was, I feel eventually I will seek out a browser that doesn't have all this tacked on baggage.
I wonder if I could duplicate the redirect notification and trick somebody into installing some malware..... No good deed goes unpunished.
{o.o}
Finally Google is helping us surf for porn without being redirected to a Russian hack site!
1. Implement feature allowing advertisers to harass users (e.g. open windows, redirect).
2. Advertisers start using the feature.
3. Block feature.
4. Advertisers find workaround for block.
5. Improve block.
6 GOTO 4.
Vs.
1. Implement user harassing feature.
2. Advertisers start using the feature.
3. Revert user harassing feature.
Vs.
1. Don't implement user harassing feature.
Why are they always using the first method, when it's the most moronic, the most annoying for users AND the one wasting the most work on updating stupid blockers?
It's not like if Chrome removed window.open or parent.location websites would go back to requiring Internet Explorer.
a 600 gazzillion $ industry - won't some one thing of the advertisers rights to shovel crap at you?
I have also found an amazing article to solve chrome issues within a few minutes , I guess you can resolve your chrome issue by that as well