Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed security features

Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by Semaphor on Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:05AM (#29264158)

> Tips and News from Mozilla and Firefox

Was switched off.

All the others (according to the linked information) are irrelevant for intrusive pop-up ads. By all means, please explain to me which of those settings do something different from what they are supposed to do, or tell me about an about:config settings that tells Firefox to never show me pop-up ads.

What made me angry: https://i.imgur.com/s9hC23U.png which blocks the interaction with any part of Firefox until I click "Not Now"

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by eyeundersand on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:27AM (#29267245)

Is this not a one-time thing that's shown after every update? Or is it recurring?

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by pitay on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:21PM (#29267927)

It was one time for me. Although I do think what they advertised there and the way they advertised it was nonsensical and disrespectful to the user.

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by berkes on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:25AM (#29267221)

Sounds like a bug then. Is there a bug-report for this?

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