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		ori_b on July 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google bans its ads on sites that use annoying ‘po... > Because it's really hard to differentiate between legit popups (that the user wants) and popups that are unwanted. It really isn't -- does it exist? Yes? Then it's unwanted. For the few misguided sites that use a pop-up as a ui element, the yellow '<site> has attempted to pop up a window' is sufficient. There are zero cases where I'd be happier with a site opening a pop up window on my behalf, than doing it's thing in the same page.

mattnewton on July 12, 2017 [–]

They don't have to do that, and as another commerce mentions, often achieve this with otherwise perfectly acceptable api's - they make the link open a new tab, and then change the original site's content to an Ad.

ori_b on July 12, 2017 | [–]

Disallow opening new tabs. There are zero cases where I want a site to do that.

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