1416345 - Expanding user protections on the web using Firefox with pop-up blocker and redirection enhancement

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1406886

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[mdew]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171110005445

Steps to reproduce:

Would be good to have something similar to what Chrome announced: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/11/expanding-user-protections-on-web.html

test site: https://ndossougbe.github.io/web-sandbox/interventions/3p-redirect/

* Improve popup blocker
* Preventing Redirection scripts

Comment 1

[Greg ( Hank1 )]

Epiphany being a linux only Browser has a Native Blocker in it also

Comment 2

[mdew]

Not looking at block lists, more mitigation against redirects and popups (seems most ad servers have a work around the in-browser popup blocker)

Comment 3

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

CCed Wennie and Ethan to put this on their planning radar!

Comment 4

[mdew]

Just for reference, Chrome just added better protection for tab-unders, and strengthening the popup blocker;

Detect and block tab-unders: 
     https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=661629
Sites with abusive experiences should get a stronger popup blocker:   
     https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=756089

Comment 6

[Jonathan Kingston [:jkt] he/him]

Closing this for the more focused Bug 1406886, I'll open another for the abusive popup blocker changes.