> Pop-ups are back, and they’re worse than ever

The article opens with a screenshot of genuine pop-ups, and they are clearly so much worse than the (still annoying) modals presented later in the article. In the past, sites spawned a mess of popups that extended out of the browser window and persisted even when the page was navigated away from. Now if you don't like what the page is doing, you can at least just navigate away.

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lmm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

On the contrary. Popups you could leave for later and/or close with the browser chrome, as bad as they are, are less annoying than today's modals that block the site you were reading until you find the magic pixel.

	▲	Waterluvian 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They were so much worse. They’d basically “corrupt” your system state. They were often self replicating and so you’d have to quit the whole browser to make it stop. Sometimes even that wasn’t enough. Sometimes it would grind your PC to a halt and you’d have to reboot.

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compass_copium 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>sites spawned a mess of popups that extended out of the browser window and persisted even when the page was navigated away from

I feel like that was mostly porn sites. I find modals far more intrusive on mainstream sites.

	▲	wolvoleo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Porn and privacy sites. Especially the latter still do it a LOT and they will just block you if you block the popups.