The pop-ups and redirects were used for merchant and payment gateways website. This would help merchants in collecting the payment without closing the active sessions in the browser. It was the easiest way for the merchant site to identify the payment completions and revenue attribution.
But, due to tonnes of spammers and phishing sites, these two prominent features (pop-ups and redirect) were being misused heavily to spam or hack the credentials of the user. This lead to online scams and frauds.
Hence, merchant and eCommerce sites are now collecting the payments using the payment gateway redirection. Following the same, you enter the card details in the same window within the merchant sites and only the authentication part is done at banking sites.
Using the redirects for payment gateways is okay, but numerous websites misuse this feature to trap their users. I fell prey to the same a few days ago. It took me away from my browsing page and landed me on a malware website.
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However, there are still ample websites that rely on pop-ups, but, you can allow those selected sites to use the pop-ups and redirection feature, and block the pop-ups and redirects on the rest of the sites.
How to Allow Pop-ups and Redirect in Chrome Computer?
Pop-ups and redirects feature are available in chrome browser, however, it’s blocked by default. Nonetheless, if you think a site needs this feature, then you enable it to allow pop-ups or redirects easily.
Here are the steps to allow browser pop-ups and redirects in chrome computer:
- Launch the Google Chrome browser on Computer.
- Click on
menu for options. - Select Settings from the list.
- Scroll down to the Privacy and Security section, and select the Site settings from the menu.
- Choose the Pop-ups and redirects option within Site settings.
- Toggle the button to turn ON and allow the pop-ups.
This will allow all the websites to use pop-ups and redirects in the chrome web browser. Just in case you want to allow only a specific website for pop-ups and redirects, then you can add those URLs into the Allow section.
How to Block Pop-ups and Redirect in Chrome Computer?
It’s risky to keep the pop-ups and redirects feature enabled for all the websites. If you do not need these options, then you should consider blocking pop-ups and redirects on your chrome browser.
Here are the steps on how to block browser pop-ups and redirects in chrome on a computer:
- Launch the Google Chrome Computer browser.
- Click on menu for options.
- Select Settings from the list.
- Scroll down to the Privacy and Security section, and select the Site settings from the menu.
- Choose the Pop-ups and redirects option within Site settings.
- Toggle the button to turn OFF and block the pop-ups and redirection.
This will completely block pop-ups and redirects windows for all the websites in the Chrome browser. In case you want to block it for a few websites, then you can add those website URLs into the Block section.
The URLs added into Allow or Block section will work irrespective of the main switch within Pop-ups and redirects.
Bottom Line: Chrome Computer Pop-ups and Redirections
The pop-ups and redirects blocker is a great feature that is set to block these distractions by default. However, if you need the website to send pop-ups, then you can disable the pop-up blocker within the Chrome computer browser.
The chrome also offers the feature to add the selected site URL that will be allowed or blocked from sending the pop-up windows. Just add the site URL under the correct bucket and make the pop-ups and redirects blocker work automatically.
I enabled the pop-ups and redirects blocker on my chrome computer, I could browse between websites seamlessly without having to worry about landing on a scammy website.
Similarly, you can also block or allow pop-ups on the chrome android browser. You can also whitelist selected sites to send pop-ups on the mobile device.
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