If you have read one of my previous post, Protect Your PC with NoScript,, I wrote about the benefits of using NoScript addon to protect your pc. I didn’t realize another benefit of the Noscript addon.
There are atimes, I would go to a site and the site would want you to do a survey from an affiliate program before you can read the content. The survey is shown to you as a pop up. The survey would require you to fill out your email, name and some other stuffs that would take more than 5 minutes of your time. Why should you be imposed to do a survey just because you want to read an article. Download, install and run the NoScript addon. The addon would stop the pop up because the pop up is a script that is instructed to come on your screen.
Not only for surveys, but the NoScript would also stop those annoying newsletter pop ups. I don’t why, but it seems using newsletter subscription pop ups is the latest thing in the blogsphere. Bloggers want to increase their RSS feed number, so they would make a pop up telling you to suscribe to their blog. Most of these pop ups have a close button which is good. But for the ones that have no close button, run the NoScript addon and get rid of it.