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.

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That's nice.

[newcastlejon]

Does it also detect dupes on slashdot?

Re:That's nice.

[Anonymous Coward]

So here's a new one then. Self driving bus gets in accident two hours after starting service in Las Vegas
http://www.zdnet.com/article/s...

Re:That's nice.

[dreamchaser]

Does it also detect dupes on slashdot?

Next thing you'll ask for is a perpetual motion machine. It's about as plausible.

Re:That's nice.

[superposed]

From the original article: "Police determined that the shuttle came to a stop when it sensed the truck was trying to back up. The truck, however continued to back up until its tires touched the front of the shuttle. The truck’s driver was cited for illegal backing."

So I guess they need to teach the self-driving vehicles to honk their horn and to back up when someone is backing into them. Seem like reasonable things to learn in a pilot test.

Re:That's nice.

[viperidaenz]

only a first post can detect a slashdot dupe.

Re:That's nice.

[Applehu Akbar]

No, Nevada rules would apply: a recorded voice from the shuttle screams obscenities at the backing truck, and then if that doesn't work riddles it with bullets.

Re:That's nice.

[lucm]

This is the Frist, Editor edition.

Re:That's nice.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds to me like the original truck driver has a financial interest in driverless trucks failing. Highly suspicious.

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[superposed]

Would a human driver stop right behind a bigger truck and blame the truck when blo

I think what I described is pretty much what a good human driver would do if a truck stopped in front of them and began to back up: stop, look for a way to go around the truck, otherwise honk to let the truck know you're there and backup if possible. But this is a rare situation, so it's just the kind of thing that should be observed in real-world tests and then "taught" to the vehicle to improve its future performance.

Of course a human driver has real intelligence, so in principle they could adapt to this type of situation the first time they saw it. But there are plenty of drivers who would do exactly what this shuttle did the first time they encountered this type of situation.

Re: That's nice.

[sajad0102]

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Not even off the front page!

[green1]

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!

Re:Not even off the front page!

[lucm]

That's because BeauHD doesn't read Slashdot, he's here simply to promote Apple products and hopefully get back his part-time job at the Apple Store.

Also covered on Slashdot

[tepples]

Slashdot: "Chrome Will Whack Website Bait-and-Switch Tactics"

Prediction

[Anonymous Coward]

Next BeauHD post covers an exploding SpaceX rocket.

Websites that try to circumvent yada-yada

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

[...]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"...

dupe^2

[lucm]

The irony being that there's already many posts complaining about the dupe

Re: dupe^2

[desdinova 216]

well, it could be dupes all the way down.

Duplicates aside - I wonder if I can ....

[Wizardess]

I wonder if I could duplicate the redirect notification and trick somebody into installing some malware..... No good deed goes unpunished.

{o.o}

Blocking blocking, always blocking

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Four methods to solve any kind of chrome issue

[sajad0102]

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