Help with AdBlock for Drop-Down Pop-Ups

[Lisa Brown]

I visit a number of websites a day, and so many of them now have these pop-up windows to follow them on Facebook or subscribe to emails, etc. They pop up from the bottom, the top, sides. I don't know how to block them, if at all possible. It is really annoying. Does anyone know how I can go about blocking these types of pop-ups?

Here is an example of one. You may see the drop-down pop-up: http://www.favesouthernrecipes.com/inde ... -Giveaways

Thanks for any advice

[LIMPET235]

Moving this to the Firefox Support forum...

I did not see any pop-up/downs etc until I temp allowed the site in No Script.

[t3l0zvxqIiXuzuH0]

Have a look here:

https://adblockplus.org/subscriptions

there are lists to block any type of annoyances and social media crap. I don't use any of them because usually I add my own filters for the few sites where I need them. These work for your example:

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favesouthernrecipes.com###newsletterSignUpDivAnime
favesouthernrecipes.com###viewportGreyout

It takes one minute to create them.

[Lisa Brown]

Thank you, everyone.

I tested out the filters above from t3l0zvxqIiXuzuH0, and it seems to be working. My question is now: How can I write my own filters for other annoying websites and their pop-ups? Is there a tutorial on this someplace? Is it easy? I keep looking at the elements when these pop-ups come up and I can't figure out how to write one.

[kreemoweet]

The Element Hiding Helper extension is very useful when a user needs to create a custom hiding rule in AdBlock Plus. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... idehelper/

[t3l0zvxqIiXuzuH0]

It's all explained here:

https://adblockplus.org/filters
https://adblockplus.org/filter-cheatsheet

Element Hiding Helper is probably what you need. I don't have it installed and I usually find the id of the elements to hide with Firefox "Inspect element" context menu. It takes no time at all once you understand how it works.

[lovemyfoxy]

I use Element Hiding, and although the pop-up disappears, the real window remains gray and unscrollable. They're not letting you continue unless you click on that pop-up. This happens about half the time.

[Vitesse]

I use Element Hiding, and although the pop-up disappears, the real window remains gray and unscrollable. They're not letting you continue unless you click on that pop-up. This happens about half the time.

Try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ay/?src=ss It has a toolbar button which you can click to remove the overlay on just about any website - even if it has no close button.

[lovemyfoxy]

[t3l0zvxqIiXuzuH0]

I use Element Hiding, and although the pop-up disappears, the real window remains gray and unscrollable. They're not letting you continue unless you click on that pop-up. This happens about half the time.

From what I've seen, you just have to find the right things to block. The real window is behind the gray overlay. In the example filters I provided, this part:

favesouthernrecipes.com###newsletterSignUpDivAnime

blocks the popup, and this:

favesouthernrecipes.com###viewportGreyout

blocks the overlay.

[lovemyfoxy]

Thanks. The extension works for me.

[patrickjdempsey]

I use Element Hiding, and although the pop-up disappears, the real window remains gray and unscrollable. They're not letting you continue unless you click on that pop-up. This happens about half the time.

This is one of the problems with using Element Hiding for stuff like this. Because the geeks who thought up this terrible interface idea didn't give it any kind of standard, there's no universal way to stop modal dialogs from breaking websites. And even if you have one solution a week later they might change it... a constant headache. I think I'd rather have the old alert dialogs.

[lovemyfoxy]

Many fixes in FF are temporary. I go with the flow.