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This is not a pop-up. People hate popups because they're intrusive and have their own window. This API replaces div modals and saves time and code for developers.

[maccard]

No, people hate pop ups because they steal focus and draw attention away from the content they’re interested in. Whether it’s a pop up or a popover, a prompt asking me to sign up to your newsletter is not something I want.

[coldpie]

If you haven't already, go enable the Annoyances and Cookie banner filter lists in your uBlock Origin installation. It doesn't get all of them, of course, but it does get a lot. For the remainder, the Kill Sticky bookmark is pretty good about knocking them out: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...

[Zak]

Both things are true. Popups are more disruptive because they remain even after the page that spawned them is closed and often obscure their origin.

[marginalia_nu]

They're basically the same. Browsers started blocking popups because they were almost always misused. Pop-overs took their place because they're somewhat less trivially blockable.

[The_Colonel]

The big difference is that there are very few valid use cases for popups, but many useful ones for popovers.

[marginalia_nu]

Keep in mind this was a time when virtually all state was kept serverside. Basically anything you could do with a popover you could do with a popup, and there were definitely benign uses of them.

[TrueDuality]

Which people still hate because its mostly marketing trash that gets in the way of whatever they were trying to do on the underlying page.