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How do I block the email button on Yahoo! news pages that causes a popup that obscures the news item?

Use Firefox Tools > Options > Content > Block Pop-up windows? (May have to add exceptions for reCaptchas at some sites that use them.)


If that doesn't work:
I have Yahoo e-mail and have never seen such pop-ups on Yahoo News. Is it telling you that you have new e-mail, or suggesting that you send the story to others?
Look at the scripts that are running in the NS menu when that happens, and post the list.

Hint: you can r-click some empty space in the menu, and it will copy the menu to your clipboard for easy pasting.

Posting a screenshot would help, too.

MPZZ wrote:How do I block the email button on Yahoo! news pages that causes a popup that obscures the news item?

Hi, I've gotten those too, and used reload the page/refresh to get rid of it, for that one time visit at least. I don't like closing those or hitting cancel or later or whatever the option, so found that refresh page got rid of it. After a number of visits to yahoo, the block ups finally just stopped. I have pop ups blocked and abp.

guestguess wrote:Hi, I've gotten those too, and used reload the page/refresh to get rid of it, for that one time visit at least. I don't like closing those or hitting cancel or later or whatever the option, so found that refresh page got rid of it. After a number of visits to yahoo, the block ups finally just stopped. I have pop ups blocked and abp.

Just out of curiosity, *what* exactly is popping up? See my reply to OP.

I've never seen such a thing, whether logged into Yahoo Mail or not, but one reason might be that I disallow scripting from www dot yahoo.com and www dot yimg.com, and instead allow only the sub-domains mail.yahoo.com and mail.yimg.com. Might be another solution if you don't need Yahoo scripting for other services.

Oh, and I take yahooapis out of the Default Whitelist, and just temp-allow on the rare occasions that it's needed (update Contacts, e. g.,). I'd guess that would stop a lot of this, if you don't mind TA-ing as needed.

Tom T. wrote:

guestguess wrote:Hi, I've gotten those too, and used reload the page/refresh to get rid of it, for that one time visit at least. I don't like closing those or hitting cancel or later or whatever the option, so found that refresh page got rid of it. After a number of visits to yahoo, the block ups finally just stopped. I have pop ups blocked and abp.

Just out of curiosity, *what* exactly is popping up? See my reply to OP.

I've never seen such a thing, whether logged into Yahoo Mail or not, but one reason might be that I disallow scripting from www dot yahoo.com and www dot yimg.com, and instead allow only the sub-domains mail.yahoo.com and mail.yimg.com. Might be another solution if you don't need Yahoo scripting for other services.

Oh, and I take yahooapis out of the Default Whitelist, and just temp-allow on the rare occasions that it's needed (update Contacts, e. g.,). I'd guess that would stop a lot of this, if you don't mind TA-ing as needed.

Hi Tom! I don't get the pop ups anymore as I wrote above. On the yahoo site, whether in email or news or anywhere on yahoo, I don't temp allow anything, and nothing is whitelisted. I just have default settings on noscript. Thanks for asking!

Guest wrote:Hi Tom! I don't get the pop ups anymore as I wrote above. On the yahoo site, whether in email or news or anywhere on yahoo, I don't temp allow anything, and nothing is whitelisted. I just have default settings on noscript. Thanks for asking!

So, apparently Yahoo keeps count, and after a certain number of tries, they shrug (so to speak), say, "This user isn't falling for it", and they give up. That's good to know. But I like to avoid such annoyances in the first place, and to tell others how to do so. If anyone else has this problem, please let us know if my suggestions work.

Thanks for posting back, and you're very welcome.

Tom T. wrote:

Guest wrote:Hi Tom! I don't get the pop ups anymore as I wrote above. On the yahoo site, whether in email or news or anywhere on yahoo, I don't temp allow anything, and nothing is whitelisted. I just have default settings on noscript. Thanks for asking!

So, apparently Yahoo keeps count, and after a certain number of tries, they shrug (so to speak), say, "This user isn't falling for it", and they give up. That's good to know. But I like to avoid such annoyances in the first place, and to tell others how to do so. If anyone else has this problem, please let us know if my suggestions work.

Thanks for posting back, and you're very welcome.

Hi Tom, I thought they were keeping count somehow as you mentioned, but I'm wondering how they would do that. I don't allow anything to use mail or for viewing anything on yahoo, and I remove cookies after I leave every website. Do they do it by ip? I also have private browsing on. Just wondering if you might know.. Thanks!

Here is a screenshot of the popup. I've erased the facebook and twitter buttons, but nothing I do erases this annoying email button/popup.

Surrogate Script

Try creating the following about:config string preferences:

That seems to have worked. Thanks very much. Having that box blocking the first part of every news item was extremely annoying.