Web browsing popups are back?! How to destroy them.

 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1405122

Is this 1997 all over again? So why in the HELL are popups a thing again? Stupid ass HTML 5 had good stuff but came with all the hidden ways to make it suck. Dirty, scummy computer companies. Let's destroy these popups again. 

(((Ques was, get rid of Gmail login popups)))

Note, you can find a bunch of things to uncheck related to anti-facebook, anti-cookie setting popups, etc. I check all those things off, let's see how it goes. 

Quote:

I found a fix by following a link prvided by jscher2000. The uBlock Origin add-on needs to be installed to Firefox. I made 2 changes in uBlock Origin Preferences. I don't know which change stopped the google sign in pop-ups, So I'll show them both:

Click Firefox's hamburger icon (3 lines) on the right side of the Menu bar. Click Add-ons and Themes. Click the 3 dots on the right side of the UBlock Origin listing, then click Preferences. Click to highlight My filters on uBlock's Menu bar. Click on line 1, in the big open space, and paste: ||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p Click the Apply Changes button. I think this is the specific fix, but I also made the following change. Click on the Filter list tab in uBlock's Menu. Scroll down to the line -Annoyances. I put a check in all the boxes in front of anything that had the word Annoyances in the filter name. Click the Apply changes button. Close the uBlock Preferences Firefox tab.

The link that I used: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/#wiki_how_to_apply_filters

My understanding is that a web site that subsribes to the google sign-on service runs a script on Firefox to trigger the pop-up. This fix blocks the script. I'm running Firefox v109.

Maybe read:  

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/ttstre/why_does_every_website_now_have_massive_annoying/

GOT to LOVE how this turned into a "cookie consent is bad"... naturally half the scummy sites out there make it painful, when it's intended to help. But the other popups are also a problem in 2024. 

NOTE, this guy says:

I've built my own websites and intentionally made ever effort to not include any cookies on there because I don't actually need them, but because I use CAPTCHA to keep out the spam and I've embedded a YouTube video somewhere, I have to have cookies. And then I have to have more cookies to manage the cookie consent.

It's basically unavoidable.