Stronger popup blocker on sites with abusive experiences

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 64)
Intent stage: None

Summary

On sites with very abusive experiences (see documentation link below), Chrome will start enforcing a more aggressive popup blocker. This will invoke Chrome's popup blocking UI for new windows or tabs regardless of whether there is a user gesture.

Standards & signals

Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/756089

Docs: https://support.google.com/webtools/answer/7347327

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