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When I build web apps. I purposely discourage business users from injecting popups into pages and risk the loss of repeat visits. Many of today's web pages have become absolutely irritating to the point that I stop accessing them.
One of the biggest news networks, CNN, is the most egregious offender. You are reading a link and then - pop, a large popup right in the middle of the page. Use some nasty words, click the close button, and watch it fade away.
CNN also has a large collection of links to other sites that look appealing/interesting. But dare one venture to some of those sites and you may find yourself in 'clicking hell'. Most of these linked sites have tons of flashing ads, moving buttons so you will accidentally click an ad instead. One site actually crashed my desktop via Edge.
What are these people thinking? I keep seeing visions of Snidely Whiplash in my head. The lure of the initial ad to access the site many times is not included in the page after page of TMI, thus, going way beyond the initial link verbiage.
It's really a shame, CNN has a basic good page format. But their greed to attract someone somewhere is over the top.
Anyone know of a good news site without the traps? 
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I use AdBlock Plus and never have problems. Some sites insist that you disable it, in which case I do so if I'm really interested in an article. If too many ads show up as a result, I never revisit that site.
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I use uBlock, because it shows a count of "blocked ads".
If the count gets too high, that site isn't getting near my whitelist!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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uBlock Origin[^], I hope; not the discontinued donationware one. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yep: uBlock Origin 1.38.6
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I use the Brave browser[^] and it takes care of all of that while displaying the number of ads blocked.
It's chrome-based so you won't notice any problems with the browser. It's just nice & easy.
I visited cnn.com and it showed 20 ads blocked (snapshot)[^].
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I was really trying to shame the source of the problem.
Ad blockers are like putting duct tape on your leaky water hose. The real problem is why the hose is leaking.
Also most blockers are 3rd party ad-ons, and one could wonder what else is in the blocker code.
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Yep, ever way you turn there is always something else.
A lot of people don't like the Brave browser because the team who created it get some kind of benefit themselves.
Also, The Tail Is Wagging the Dog.
By that I mean, almost any technology you use you will find has terrible features.
However, you will find people saying, "No, I love that my xPhone Elite is super slippery and the battery only lasts 3 minutes. It's the greatest thing I've ever experienced." 
Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
I guess that should be updated to :
"Marketing is more important than a functioning system." 
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If only they annihilate the eggheads who decided that every single page must show a popup to accept cookies. Moronic EU directives.
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den2k88 wrote: If only they annihilate the eggheads who decided that every single page must show a popup to accept cookies all EU bureaucrats, without exception.
FTFY 
(This would make a good start. Additionally eliminating the bureaucrats in all EU member countries would be even better!)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Is that site the first sign of The Singularity[^]?
(the AI's are choosing how to handle their meat subjects)
Software Zen: delete this;
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Has anyone noticed that Win10 previously allowed the following behavior:
1) Display an app (bring it to forefront) via clicking the taskbar.
2) And then, if you clicked the icon on the taskbar again the app would hide (minimize).
But now, it seems that if you click the taskbar icon when the app is displayed then it no longer will minimize again.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I don't like it when basic features change but you have no idea which update did it.
EDIT
This is failing on my wife's computer (running 20H2) .
I've just tried it on my Win10 installation (running via VirtualBox) and it works perfectly fine on mine too.
Here are my details:
Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 21H1
Installed on 10/10/2020
OS build 19043.1237
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3530.0
modified 1-Dec-21 10:22am.
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Still does 1 and 2 on my system.
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Thanks for trying it out. My wife's Win10 does not do the 2nd one. 
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Still minimizes for me. I'm on 21H1, in case that makes any difference.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thanks for trying that. And for mentioning the version. I will check that too.
My wife's system won't do step 2.
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Test this and she is on version 20H2 -- which sounds older than yours.
I noticed that there is a thing called a Windows Experience pack which might be something different.
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I'm pretty sure it depends on how many instances of the same app you have opened.
If I have single instance of Notepad running, clicking on its taskbar icon shows/hides it as you've described. If I launch a second copy, then that behavior stops, and only resumes once there's a single instance of it still left running.
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That is interesting about the 1 versus more-than-one instance behavior difference.
I will test that on the system also. 
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Tested this and she has only one Excel window and it doesn't work.
Tried it on her Zoom chat window (only one of those) and it doesn't work there either.
Discovered she is on 20H2 so maybe that is the difference?? 
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I'm on 21H1, but also have a laptop on 21H2. I get the same behavior in both instances.
I also tried with Excel (on 21H1, I don't have Excel on the 21H2 laptop). Same behavior as Notepad.
Kill/restart explorer, then retry?
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Yeah, I'm going to have here do a reboot & see if that helps.
It's a weird thing. She said it worked for her last week but not this week.
Thanks again for your help.
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