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    Any good pop up blockers for MAC?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by no1up, Nov 3, 2011.

  1. no1up

    no1up Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a 2010 13" MBP running OSX SL, and I use safari.. I get pop ups now and then that I would like to make disappear, any help with that would be great!
     
    no1up, Nov 3, 2011
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  2. HLdan

    HLdan Notebook Virtuoso

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    Safari has a built-in pop up blocker that works very well. Check your settings. From the menu bar choose Safari and make sure "Block Pop-Up Windows" is checked.
     
    HLdan, Nov 3, 2011
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  3. KernalPanic

    KernalPanic White Knight

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    Safari is the default browser on Macs... so like most mainstream and common pop-up blockers the developers for those ads spend a lot of time learning how to defeat it.

    In order to defeat your pop-up blocker, they probably used some other method... Java comes to mind.

    Note that this might mean disabling something in order to get the pop-ups to go away.

    I'd move away from Safari... their development cycle and rate of actual improvement is among the worst in all browsers.
     
    KernalPanic, Nov 3, 2011
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  4. Mitlov

    Mitlov Shiny

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    Firefox with the AdBlock add-on worked very well for me, though I still prefer the total package of Google Chrome. It's not that Safari is a bad browser--I think it's a very respectable browser--but I prefer Chrome or Firefox, personally.
     
    Mitlov, Nov 3, 2011
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  5. kornchild2002

    kornchild2002 Notebook Deity

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    AdBlock is also available for Safari. There was another ad blocking program that I really liked but it doesn't work with Safari under OS X Lion. It would block every type of ad whether it was embedded in a YouTube video, came on before another Flash video, and pretty much everything else. The only ads that it could not block were the ones that came up while watching videos on Hulu Plus. I miss that ad blocker, I just wish I could remember its name.
     
    kornchild2002, Nov 3, 2011
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  6. .nox

    .nox Notebook Consultant

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    A) Use Chrome
    B) Use Adblock Extension
     
    .nox, Nov 11, 2011
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