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.

[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.

Also covered on Slashdot

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

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"...