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Selling traffic via background pop ups is a common method for streaming sites to make money, likely they kick back some of this revenue to feeder sites like the one mentioned. See here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/porn-runs-the-intern...

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15915564

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I hate pop-unders (background popups, whatever you want to call them) with a passion. When a website I visit spawns one, I immediately blacklist the entire domain. It's a losing battle through.

uBlock Origin is your friend.

that doesn't seem to be blocking all of these

try adding uMatrix as well or enable more of the blocking lists available in uBlock

I still don't understand why browser makers can't make this sort of interactivity impossible to implement.

I can't think of a single good use-case for pop-unders (or pop-ups even)

There two good use cases I can think of.

When you do a captive portal with some sort of timer (hotel, airplane, etc), they will sometimes do a pop under with a timer that has the option to pay more to renew. That can be slightly useful.

Or when you visit a site, and it does a pop under of a survey about that site. Then you see it when you close the window and maybe fill out the survey. That one is less useful but at least legit.

I feel there are plenty of alternatives for those legit uses, that getting rid of the ability to do that won't hurt.

Quick tip : you can blacklist nearly the full .Bid TLD. Its will stop a lot of popunders

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