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How to Stop Popups From Taking Over My Screen

Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026

Pop-ups come in two kinds: new tabs that ads open by themselves, and overlays that cover the page, such as newsletter sign-ups, "allow notifications" prompts and cookie banners. Ultimate Adblocker handles both. It closes pop-up ad tabs as soon as they open, using the filter lists' pop-up rules, and it hides sign-up pop-ups, notification prompts and cookie banners on the sites its lists cover, unlocking scrolling where the pop-up had frozen the page. A site the lists don't cover yet may still show its pop-up, and if a site keeps asking to send notifications, block notifications for it in Chrome's site settings.

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