[pmoriarty]

I never ever see popups. I do 90% of my browsing in emacs, using emacs-w3m in text mode, so don't see images (except when I manually choose to view them) and emacs-w3m does not support javascript. It works very well for the majority of websites out there.

For those sites that are broken without javascript, and which I absolutely must use, I use Firefox with the NoScript and Request Policy extensions (though I'm migrating to Pale Moon because Pentadactyl is going to break on newer versions of Firefox) and Privoxy for ad blocking. For the few sites that don't work with Firefox, I use Opera, again with Privoxy for ad blocking.

As a result, 99% of the time, the only ads I ever see are text-based, and only when embedded directly in the page I'm reading.