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Overlay Blocker

Make Chrome smarter, able to detect and stop overlay popups

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Adam
@goingplacestrip · Developer
Hey Hunters, Long time lurker here on Product Hunt sharing some of the things I've built to solve problems that plague daily life on the web. Overlay Blocker is an extension that makes Google Chrome smarter, able to detect and stop a wide range of annoying overlay popups before they appear. Still working on a way to monetize this. Tentative ideas include a… See more
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Discussion

Justin Bauer
@bauermetal · Software Engineer & Email Dude, WedPics
Modals are often used to teach users how to use features and give them important information; how will this differentiate between useful modals and ad modals?
Kevin
@kevinyun
Would be curious to hear how this works! Does this also block exit-intent modals or just intrusive on-scroll popovers?
Elizabeth S Hunker
@elizabethhunker · EIR @ vLAB
Yeah, find a new way to frustrate me while trying to endear me - this is a winner extension. @goingplacestrip
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Adam
@goingplacestrip · Developer
Hey Hunters, Long time lurker here on Product Hunt sharing some of the things I've built to solve problems that plague daily life on the web. Overlay Blocker is an extension that makes Google Chrome smarter, able to detect and stop a wide range of annoying overlay popups before they appear. Still working on a way to monetize this. Tentative ideas include a… See more
Jon Bales
@sucrose · Web Developer
The only difference between using this and blacklisting DOM elements using uBlock Origin is the hefty $40 price-tag... and it's on sale from $59! I'm kinda curious of the modal detection methods and how ambiguous the rules and/or patterns must be.