a website is makign new tabs to display ads
there is a website i use regularly to watch videos on. the only problem is it has ads, and wont let you load any video if you have a ad blocker, even if you use ABP non intrusive ad setting. while im okay with ads, i know websites need to make money, this website makes new tabs, and even windows, and makes it go to a website. this is quite annoying, as sometimes the website has sounds, or even goes through hundreds of website(i dont know why, i can see the address bar changing every second) and slows down FireFox as a whole. the only way around this is to pay for premium which i cant afford. is there ANY way to prevent this? id ont want to hide the ads, i just want this website to stop making new tabs and windows. i am on Mac 10.10.5, with newest firefox version 48.0. i have already used MalwareBytes to check for adware but it did not get anything.
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jscher2000 said
Perhaps there is a way to adjust ABP to only block certain aspects of the site's annoying behavior. If it's a popular site, you might not be the first person to have that request. You could check their forums: https://adblockplus.org/forum/ You may be wondering why Firefox's popup blocker isn't stopping the new windows and tabs, and often it is because they sprung up after you clicked something, which is a scenario that Firefox doesn't block. Possibly the ABP popup blocking companion add-on could help? I haven't tried it myself: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/adblock-plus-pop-up-addon/
ya, i searched a bit more, and the website changed the company that handled ad's, and this new one was obnoxious with pop ups. anytime you clicked something every hour or so a new tab would open. i dug around a bit more after posting this, and found a better ad blocker that would block ad's, and not set off a detection, and stop my video. thanks for the comment though. if your curios the new one i have is ublock origin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
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Perhaps there is a way to adjust ABP to only block certain aspects of the site's annoying behavior. If it's a popular site, you might not be the first person to have that request. You could check their forums: https://adblockplus.org/forum/
You may be wondering why Firefox's popup blocker isn't stopping the new windows and tabs, and often it is because they sprung up after you clicked something, which is a scenario that Firefox doesn't block. Possibly the ABP popup blocking companion add-on could help? I haven't tried it myself:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/adblock-plus-pop-up-addon/
Load the web page. After the page is loaded, click the down arrow next to the AdBlock icon. Now select Disable on <website>. Reload the page.
This should allow that site, but block others.
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jscher2000 said
Perhaps there is a way to adjust ABP to only block certain aspects of the site's annoying behavior. If it's a popular site, you might not be the first person to have that request. You could check their forums: https://adblockplus.org/forum/ You may be wondering why Firefox's popup blocker isn't stopping the new windows and tabs, and often it is because they sprung up after you clicked something, which is a scenario that Firefox doesn't block. Possibly the ABP popup blocking companion add-on could help? I haven't tried it myself: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/adblock-plus-pop-up-addon/
ya, i searched a bit more, and the website changed the company that handled ad's, and this new one was obnoxious with pop ups. anytime you clicked something every hour or so a new tab would open. i dug around a bit more after posting this, and found a better ad blocker that would block ad's, and not set off a detection, and stop my video. thanks for the comment though. if your curios the new one i have is ublock origin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
edited by a moderator to embolden the "solution" and to provide a hyperlink to that extension
Modified by the-edmeister
FredMcD said
Load the web page. After the page is loaded, click the down arrow next to the AdBlock icon. Now select Disable on <website>. Reload the page. This should allow that site, but block others.
i know how to stop it, the point is this website had pop up ads. i fixed the problem already though