How to unlock pop-ups on Google Chrome Mac

The use of web browsers has increased in such a way that today it is one of the applications executed in the first place since from there we access business, educational platforms and a multitude of sites of great help both personally and in other areas of the life.

With the rise of the use of browsers, various functionalities are integrated within them either in order to collect user information (as cookies do) or to display additional windows with different types of information (as do the pop ups or pop-ups).

Solvetic will explain the steps about pop-ups and how to block them or not in Google Chrome in macOS Mojave.

What are pop-ups?

When we access some sites on the internet, we can see how a series of windows are displayed outside the main window. These windows are called pop-ups or popups and appear automatically, since at no time have we requested their opening. In the content of these we can find advertising or application information, in addition windows do not have a fixed size so that some can occupy the entire screen and others only a part of it.

Types of pop-up windows

There are basically two types of pop-ups which are:

• Emerging: as the name suggests, these types of windows are displayed overlapping the active window and usually we see advertising information in them.

• Submerged: these types of windows are a bit more dangerous since they open under the main window and their content can have some type of hidden code integrated to write cookies or other control functions on the browser or sites visited.

Regardless of their use, many users find the deployment of these windows annoying and therefore choose to use the browser's built-in functions or add-ons such as Ad Blocker to avoid their use, but we must be aware that even some sites make use of pop-up windows to Access external content that may be useful.

This is why Solvetic will explain how we can unlock or create exceptions for some sites at the level of pop-ups in Google Chrome for macOS.

Note

In case you do not have Google Chrome on macOS we can download it for free at the following link:

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1. How to unlock pop-ups in Google Chrome Mac

By default, Google Chrome blocks pop-up windows in your browser to avoid automatic deployment to visited sites, so when a pop-up window is blocked, it will be possible to see the pop-up blocked icon at the end of the visited URL.

Step 1
If we want to unlock pop-ups in Google Chrome and allow their deployment, we must open a new session, click on the button "Customize and control Google Chrome" and in the options displayed select "Settings":

Note

It will also be possible to access directly using the key combination

⌘ +,

Step 2
In the next window we will go to the bottom and there we select “Advanced”:

Step 3
In the next window we go to the “Privacy and security” category and there we will locate the “Content settings” section:

Step 4
In the following window we locate the line “Pop-up windows and redirect”:

Step 5
We click there and the following window will be displayed where we will observe that the default value is “Locked”:

Step 6
To allow the use of pop-up windows in Google Chrome for macOS, click on the switch and see that its status becomes "Allowed". Thus, we are ready to receive the pop-up windows available on the sites visited in Google Chrome.

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2. How to block or allow pop-ups of a specific site on Google Chrome Mac

We may want to block all pop-ups for security and only allow a particular site to deploy them. For this we can activate pop-ups only for that site.

Step 1
To do this, we must click on the window icon located in the URL and in the pop-up window select “Always allow site pop-ups” and then click on “Done”. Another option is to create an exception for this site, for this we must go back to the “Pop-up and redirect windows” section and there click on the “Add” line located in the “Allow” section, the following window will be displayed where we will enter The URL to allow:

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Step 2
Click on "Add" and we will see our site added. In case all pop-ups are allowed and we want to block a special site, we repeat the previous process, but in the “Block” section or it will also be possible to click on the icon of three vertical dots and select Block.

As we can see, enabling or not pop-up in Google Chrome for macOS is a simple task that does not require great configuration and will be useful for optimal navigation.

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