[jra]

Drudge Report was removed from my bookmarks this morning for that very reason.

Clicked on two stories and got SIX pop-ups.

Bye, Matt.

[MizSterious]

I quit going to Drudge when spyware was installed there. That was quite enough for me.

[monkapotamus]

"Drudge Report was removed from my bookmarks this morning for that very reason.

Clicked on two stories and got SIX pop-ups.

Bye, Matt."

Were the popups the result of exiting the Drudge Report (code from the Drudge site), or due to code on the news sites you visited that were linked at Drudge's site? If it's the latter, Drudge isn't at fault. BTW, I noticed a while back that Drudge's own site popups appear now even while using Firefox with popup blocking enabled. A solution is:

Like you, I love Firefox for many reasons, including popup blocking. So over the last few weeks I’ve been surprised to see occasional popups.

It turns out that some clever people figured out that you could launch popups from Flash, getting around the Firefox default settings.

Fortunately, you can get around it:

Type about:config into the Firefox location bar. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins Set the value to 2.
The possible values are:

0: Allow all popups from plugins.
1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
2: Block popups from plugins.
3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

I wondered how people dealt with that

[cloud8]

Absolutely. Problem is users put up with Tracking cookies, Ad- and Malware.

You know what I can't stand is a site so over-Javaed it looks like a pinball machine.

:-)

[mmercier]

Ditto.

Every time I hit Drudge I spend an hour cleaning up.

I would never purchase anything from a pop up, and I hope aQ gets them all.

[Junior_G]

One of the new popups at drudgereport is for a porn site. Classy stuff, Matt.

[NewHampshireDuo]

I hate them too. And, I virtually never go to Drudge anymore.