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Not a chance. The websites with the worst popups probably couldn’t care less about something like <dialog>. It’s all <div> and JavaScript for them.


Plus, the worst offenders have a vested interest in making those hard to block. For example, my 2 common offenders are Twitter and reddit displaying modals on mobile prompting for app download. Both companies have no interest in making these easy to block.


I click on most of those sites from search. So my fix is: cmd+w or ctrl+w.




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