263870 - Popup Blocking can be compromised by deceiving messages.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 263777

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Jeeva]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

The URL in question brought up an image informing "Your browser has blocked a
popup successfully" and provides an "Ok" button. This will deceive user to click
okay.

Though this makes popup block ineffective, I am not sure whether this issue can
be fixed. 

I hope there is Black List for website like this.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable popup blocking ( I have not tried by disabling popup blocking)
2. Reset cookies
3. Open http://indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=56730
Actual Results:  
After the page is rendered. A dialog like *image* comes with "Popup Blocked!" as
title and "Your browser has blocked a popup successfully". If you click Ok
button, it opens a new link in a new browser. Hope they don't link harmful link
in it, some firefox exploit in it.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This is a known issue. Short of disallowing new windows completely there's
nothing that can be done.

If site authors want you to see ads before you can view content they will find a
way, whether it's interstitial pages like salon.com or a blocking <div> like
time.com. At least those two cases are honest and users will either accept it or
leave. Attempts like this one would seem counter-productive for a news site: why
should anyone trust anything they say if they manipulate visitors with deception?

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263777 ***