Paul wrote:
KenK wrote:
I notice recently that a window appears shortly after some web sites
load, blocking the site's contants, with no exit 'X' in the upper right.
Usually getting you to sign up for something or other with your email
address. Like you don't already receive enough spem! is there any way to
make these go away without signing up? Probably not.

Some news sites, like New York Times, are now limiting the number of
visits to three or using the above blocking window. sigh

Getting so I'll have to find a replacement of some sort for much of my
internet usage. Is nothing sacred? g

TIA

There is Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey, with attendant risks from
the pool of existing scripts they can use.

This is perhaps just as scary. You would want to do this,
on a browser where, if it needed to be trashed, you wouldn't
mind removing the browser entirely and reinstalling. Chrome
has a gazillion storage locations and I wouldn't know what to
remove to reset an extension like this. And besides, Chrome isn't
likely to work on WinXP anyway, so I suppose this isn't that
helpful. But at least this approach doesn't require a CS degree
and "programming homework" for the user.

Chrome 49.0 still works well on XP. I think it was the last version for
XP, and works as a fallback, when FF 52.9 doesn't work quite right on a few
sites.