Not all pop-up windows are evil spam, some of them remain genuinely useful. Here’s how to get Safari on macOS Monterey to show you the ones you actually want, while still shielding you from all of the rest.
It is still the case that there are websites that use pop-up windows like it was the early 2000s and we hadn’t really heard of spam. Safari on macOS Monterey will protect you from them, and protect you so well that you almost certainly don’t even notice.
But take for example, a site such as the social media scheduling one, Buffer.com. You can use Buffer to write a tweet when it suits you, but have it be posted when it will suit your audience.
Except you can’t do that until you tell Buffer what your Twitter account is, and allow it access. And at time of writing, you can’t tell Buffer any of this because it asks via a pop-up window.
It is remarkably frustrating when this happens on any site because, it appears, you can’t know what’s wrong. All you see is that something isn’t working, and in the hope that you’ve just missed clicking on the right button, you keep clicking away.
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