In the last six months I am starting to see some inventive screen lock up pop ups that the only way out of is to kill the whole Safari browser with a force quit. My wife got one searching doll clothes sites.
Do you think we are going to see a Safari patch that will lock such pop ups out of opening or do you think it is still something that is going to have to get a lot more perverse before it reaches a remedy?
Screen lock-up pop ups? Not sure I’ve ever seen on - except many years ago on a work Windows machine using Internet Explorer... was a malware attack from a web site.
I’ve seen some pervasive pop-ups, but rarely see any these days. I use Safari’s built-in pop-up controller.
Those really are not lock ups. . . they are just scores of duplicate windows opened on the same tab using Java script and will not let go until you agree to their ransom ware demands. They will work on Windows machines using a different approach as well. Attempting to close one opens more. But you are right, the way to get out of it is to force quit Safari and then not re-open that page which has a malicious ad on it. The problem is in Java script. An update to Java Script will eventually fix the problem. It is not the website that has any control of it. Google Ads puts the malicious ad on the website. In the meantime, go into Safari preferences and disallow running Java scripts.
Use AdBlocker and that also is effective in preventing this from occurring on all browsers in OS X.