Site problen.

On 5 May 2017 17:14:50 GMT, KenK wrote:
Using Firefox 52.1.0 and XP Home I found a new site problem.
That window which pops up on many sites offering a way to sign
up for their enmail list This one, unfortunately, had no way to
exit the window and view the blurred site. Most so far have had
the 'X' in the upper right corner. Or you could just click on
the main window and the email ad would go away,

I tried ESC key, double-clicking on the main site, DEL button,
.... nothing worked. I finally just bailed out of the site.

Boy, these site programmers are finding more and more ways to
annoy their viewers!

Ideas?

Is your "Block pop-up windows" setting enabled?
And can you give me an example site?

VanguardLH wrote in :

KenK wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

KenK wrote:

Using Firefox 52.1.0 and XP Home I found a new site problem.
That window which pops up on many sites offering a way to sign
up for their enmail list This one, unfortunately, had no way to
exit the window and view the blurred site. Most so far have had
the 'X' in the upper right corner. Or you could just click on
the main window and the email ad would go away,

I tried ESC key, double-clicking on the main site, DEL button,
... nothing worked. I finally just bailed out of the site.

Is is a secret web site? You want help on an unknown? With details,
probably the best advice is "Don't go there again". (Patient: It hurts
when I do something. Doctor: Don't do that something.)

Did you try disabling your adblocker to see if content or elements that
were no longer blocked would then appear or be available to let you
close the pseudo popup? The purpose of adblockers is to mangle web
pages by blocking resources expected by the page or even altering their
code. Web designers cannot code for graceful recovery for when their
code gets mangled in unknown ways. I use adblockers. They WILL mangle
some web sites. Tis the price for adblocking.

Not familiar with adblockers. Does Firefox have one built in? If not, I
don't use one as I never installed one.

Should I?

What add-ons are listed when you go to about:addons?
What is listed when you go to aboutlugins?


Status-4-Evar
Kaspersky Protection
DownThemAll

Not all adblockers must run as extensions inside of web browsers. Some
run as proxies. So you could be running a separate program as an
adblocking that interrogates your web traffic. Some companies run their
own content censoring that is upstream of their workstations. Some
folks use upstream content filtering, like with OpenDNS: you use their
DNS server to assist with blocking "bad" sites. There are a lot of ways
to block content than just with extensions added to web browsers. Even
some anti-virus software incorporates content blocking.

Are you in incognito mode? Mozilla added Disconnect.me's blacklist and
uses it in incognito mode.

In ToolsOptionsPrivacy and Security and Advanced it doesn't show so I
guess not.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...protection-pbm




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On 05/05/17 19:21, KenK wrote:
Good Guy wrote in newseiea9$sg2$2
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On 05/05/2017 18:42, KenK wrote:
Good Guy wrote in newseid84$qk8$1
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On 05/05/2017 18:14, KenK wrote:
Boy, these site programmers are finding more and more ways to
annoy their viewers!

Ideas?

Don't visit them. Problem solved.

Many sites I only visit once so I can't anticipate problems.

And it seems more and more sites have such new problems. I suspect
eventually they all will.




Please give us an link for us to try on Windows 10 machine to see if
this is XP problem or the site is crap.



https://www.cooksillustrated.com/tas...9-curry-powder



I finished Step one and when Step 2 came up I stopped because they
wanted my address and credit card details. It works on 10 so clearly
the problem must be with XP.


Evidently you started to enroll in the email solicitation entry box.
However, I was trying to make it go away instead so I could view the web
site.


--
I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook.

VanguardLH wrote in :

KenK wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

KenK wrote:

Using Firefox 52.1.0 and XP Home I found a new site problem.
That window which pops up on many sites offering a way to sign
up for their enmail list This one, unfortunately, had no way to
exit the window and view the blurred site. Most so far have had
the 'X' in the upper right corner. Or you could just click on
the main window and the email ad would go away,

I tried ESC key, double-clicking on the main site, DEL button,
... nothing worked. I finally just bailed out of the site.

Is is a secret web site?

https://www.cooksillustrated.com/tas...9-curry-powder

That content is restricted to subscribers. Are you a subscriber? If
so, login and the interferring popup should disappear. From their home
page:

"TRY COOKSILLUSTRATED.COM FREE FOR 14 DAYS"

Well, that certainly does not look like a free public web site. Not
all
web sites are free. Not all "free" web sites allow unfettered access
to
all their content.


Live and Learn! This is the first time I've run into that. I rarely use
web sites unless I'm researching something and in that case usually only
visit the site once as one offered in my Google response list. So no, I
don't subscribe to web sites.

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I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook.

KenK wrote:

Live and Learn! This is the first time I've run into that. I rarely use
web sites unless I'm researching something and in that case usually only
visit the site once as one offered in my Google response list. So no, I
don't subscribe to web sites.

The LA Times is very similar. Waste of electrons.

KenK wrote:

VanguardLH wrote in :

What add-ons are listed when you go to about:addons?
What is listed when you go to aboutlugins?

Status-4-Evar
Kaspersky Protection
DownThemAll

Disable them, reload Firefox, and test the problematic site again.

Are you in incognito mode? Mozilla added Disconnect.me's blacklist and
uses it in incognito mode.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...protection-pbm

In ToolsOptionsPrivacy and Security and Advanced it doesn't show so I
guess not.

You won't see the Disconnect.me DNSBL (DNS blocking list) *anywhere*
inside of Firefox. The blocklist is not exposed in the config GUI.
It's an automatically-enabled internal blocklist normally used only when
you load Firefox in its incognito mode. The only evidence that the
blocklist is coded within Firefox is to look in about:config.

privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

By default, it is set to False (disabled). It is not used in normal
mode in Firefox. When you load an incognito instance of Firefox, this
setting gets changed to True (enabled). You could change this setting
so their blocklist is enabled (True) in normal mode but the
Disconnect.me blocklist isn't comprehensive. If you want ad and
tracking blocking, better would be to use an add-on that incorporates
EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Fanboy, or other blocklists.

http://lifehacker.com/turn-on-tracki...-lo-1706946166

If you aren't loading Firefox in incognito mode and you did not enable
the internal tracking protection via about:config then you are not
employing the Disconnect.me blocklist in your web surfing.

Paul in Houston TX wrote:

KenK wrote:

Live and Learn! This is the first time I've run into that. I rarely use
web sites unless I'm researching something and in that case usually only
visit the site once as one offered in my Google response list. So no, I
don't subscribe to web sites.

The LA Times is very similar. Waste of electrons.

I recall someone mentioning the NY Times is also via subscription. I
can visit their home page okay so maybe it was some other content
thereunder that required a subscription.

Long ago, PC Magazine offered their free utilities from their web site
and downloading was free. Then they change that. You had to subscribe
to PC Magazine and only then could you access their "free" downloads
area. Yeah, sure, they're free only if you pay to have access, uh huh.

Subscriptions are not the only way to restrict access to content at a
web site. Some will block connections from outside their region. I
wanted to watch something over at bbc.com (British Broadcasting Corp).
I'm in the USA. Whatever it was (might've been sports related), they
blocked me for being outside their authorized access region. I've hit
that many times. They use your IP address, find out its geolocation
(from whose IP pool it got assigned and where they are), and block you
for being outside their area. Some folks will use public proxies to get
around that. The IP address address seen by the target site will be
that of the proxy, so pick one within their acceptable region. However,
there are blacklists of known public proxies (and even those that are
private proxies, like those used by commercial proxy service providers)
and they will block connections from any of those. So using a proxy
doesn't always work. I don't bother with trying to sneak around their
restrictions. If they don't want me there, I go somewhere else. As I
recall, although I couldn't get the info from bbc.com, I got it
elsewhere.