How to disable popups
For some time, your Internet browsing has become somewhat “problematic”: connecting to some websites, in fact, you continue to display annoying overlay windows, which prevent you from consulting the “underlying” pages and force you, every time , to waste precious seconds to close them manually. Windows of this type are called, in jargon, popups and almost all the most popular browsers inhibit their display by default.
However, if you are experiencing this problem, you may have unintentionally turned on the display of popups, or set one or more exceptions for websites. In any case, you have nothing to fear, because the solution to your problem is much simpler than that. that seems: in the following lines of this guide, in fact, I will explain to you in detail how to disable popups in the most commonly used browsers on computers, smartphones and tablets, in a simple and quick way.
So, if it is actually your intention to understand how to do it, all you have to do is continue reading this guide of mine: I guarantee you that, within a couple of minutes, the annoying popup windows you have encountered so far will become only a bad memory. Having said that, there is nothing left for me to do but wish you good reading and good work!
Index
- How to disable popups on Chrome
- On PC
- On smartphones and tablets
- How to disable popups on Firefox
- On PC
- On smartphones and tablets
- How to disable pop-ups on Microsoft Edge
- On PC
- On smartphones and tablets
- How to disable popups on Internet Explorer
- How to disable popups: Safari
- On Mac
- On smartphones and tablets
How to disable popups on Chrome
If it is your intention to disable the popups displayed by the Google Chrome browser , you must first go to the program or app settings and, from there, proceed with blocking the retractable windows, using the appropriate menu item. Find everything explained below.
On PC
The popups of the Chrome browser for computers can be easily disabled, directly from the program settings: first, click on the ⋮ button located in the upper right corner, choose the Settings item from the menu displayed on the screen and locate the Privacy box and security in the new tab that opens.
Now, click on the Resident site settings button , then on the Popup and redirects option and put the check mark next to the item Do not allow sites to send pop-ups or use redirects (recommended) .
The setting applied in this way will affect all websites, except for those belonging to the list Can send pop-ups and use redirects , which will continue to issue pop-ups; to ensure that this does not happen, place the mouse pointer on the name of each of the sites belonging to the list, click on the ⋮ button that appears overlay and choose the item Remove from the proposed menu.
On smartphones and tablets
As for smartphones and tablets, the procedure to follow is quite similar to that seen previously: therefore, after opening the navigation app, touch the ⋮ button (on Android ) or (…) (on iOS / iPadOS ) and touch the Settings item , located in the menu that opens.
Now, if you use Android , tap on the Site Settings item visible in the Advanced box , tap the Popup and redirects option and move the lever at the top of the screen from ON to OFF , so as to make the Block sites option visible to show pop-ups and redirects (recommended) .
On the iPhone and iPad , you must instead go to the Content Settings and Pop-up Blocker sections , move the Block Pop-up lever to ON and tap on the Fine item , located at the top right.
How to disable popups on Firefox
Almost all editions of the Mozilla Firefox browser (excluding, as you will soon discover, the one for Android) allow the deactivation of popups through the respective settings, without the need to rely on third-party extensions or add-ons.
On PC
The steps to follow to disable pop-ups in the Firefox browser for computers are as follows: to start, click on the ☰ button located at the top right, then on the Options item resident in the menu that appears and, later, on the Privacy & Security item ( or the lock icon ), located in the sidebar of the new tab that opens.
Now, locate the Permissions box and put the check mark next to Block pop-up windows , if not already there, to make the browser prevent them from opening.
Also in this case, the option will not affect the websites belonging to the list of those manually authorized; to remedy the problem, click on the Exceptions … button located next to the option to block pop-ups, click on the name of each of the websites listed and then on the Remove button , to exclude them from the list of sites authorized to generate pop-ups.
On smartphones and tablets
At the time of writing this guide, the Firefox browser for Android does not provide any procedure or extension to disable the display of popups; however, when a site tries for the first time to generate a pop-up window, you will be shown a warning about it : when this happens, all you have to do is press the button to block the request or deny consent, in order to block all future attempts by the website in question.
The issue is different, however, for iOS and iPadOS: in this case, the Firefox app provides an option to disable iPad and iPhone pop-ups , accessible directly from the app settings menu.
To proceed, after opening the browser, tap the ☰ button located at the bottom right, tap the Settings item from the menu displayed on the screen and move the switch corresponding to the wording Block pop-up windows from OFF to ON . Finally, tap the Done item , located at the top right.
How to disable pop-ups on Microsoft Edge
If you have chosen to browse the Internet using the Microsoft Edge browser and want to inhibit the display of popups by the latter, the instructions in this section will be extremely useful, in which I am going to explain how to disable the pop-up windows computer, smartphone and tablet.
On PC
To prevent the display of pop-up windows in the Microsoft Edge browser for computers , first reach the program Settings , by clicking on the button (…) located at the top right and choosing the dedicated item from the menu that is proposed.
Once this is done, click on the item Cookies and site permissions resident in the sidebar of the tab that opens, choose the Popup and redirects option attached to the All permissions box and move the lever next to the word Block (recommended) from OFF to ON .
Note that all sites listed under Allow will still be allowed to bypass the setting you applied just now, continuing to show pop-up windows. To prevent this from happening, click on the button (…) corresponding to the respective names and select the item Remove from the displayed list.
On smartphones and tablets
Disabling popups on smartphones , if you use the Microsoft Edge browser for Android (available on Play Store and alternative markets ), iOS and iPadOS , is really a breeze : first, tap the (…) button located at the bottom, tap on the gear symbol visible at the bottom of the menu that appears and touches the Site permissions option , located in the Advanced pane of the panel that appears later.
Now, tap on the Popups and redirects option and move the only visible lever to OFF , so as to make the wording Block sites from showing popups and redirects appear (recommended option) .
To delete any sites in the list of Exceptions (which are always allowed to generate popups, regardless of the previous setting), tap on each of their names , tap the Popup and redirects item visible in the next panel and put the check mark next to Block .
How to disable popups on Internet Explorer
If, for some reason, you still use Internet Explorer to browse the Net (be careful, it is an obsolete program!), You can prevent the popups from appearing in the following way: click on the gear symbol located in the upper right corner of the window of the program, choose Internet Options from the menu that opens and wait for the relative window to be shown on the screen.
Now, click on the Privacy tab visible inside it, put the check mark next to the wording Enable Pop-up Blocker and press the Apply button , to implement the change, which however will not affect the sites in the list of exceptions (which will be allowed to view pop-ups).
To remedy this, click on the Settings button visible in the same window , click on the name of each of the sites from which to allow pop-ups and press the Remove button to remove it from the list; to delete all the sites in one go, click on the Remove all … button instead and confirm the warning that appears later.
Still from the same window, then define the popup blocking level , choosing from the available options: high , to block all the pop-up windows; medium , to block most of the automatic ones; and low , to allow pop-ups only from safe sites. Once you have applied the adjustments you prefer, click on the Close , Apply and OK buttons and restart the browser.
How to disable popups: Safari
Do you usually surf the Internet using Safari , the default browser of macOS, iOS and iPadOS? Don’t worry, even in this case you can inhibit the display of pop-up windows, very easily.
On Mac
If yours is a Mac , to begin with, start Safari and open the Safari> Preferences … menu located in the Mac menu bar, top left. Once in the new window, click on the Websites button located at the top and select the item Pop-up windows which is, this time, in the left sidebar.
Finally, set the drop-down menu When you visit other websites to Block and warn (to receive a notification that the popup has been blocked), or to Block .
This setting has no effect on the sites listed in the Allow pop-up windows on the following websites box ; to exclude them from the list and, consequently, block the display of the popups, click on the name of each of the listed elements and then on the Remove button , which appears as an overlay.
On smartphones and tablets
To disable iPhone and iPad popups while using the Safari browser, you need to intervene from the operating system Settings : therefore, tap the gear button located on the Home screen or in the iOS / iPadOS App Library, tap the Safari item and finally, move the lever called Retractable window lock from OFF to ON . Very easy, isn’t it ?!