I don’t love the title. They have continued to block pop-ups. They didn’t keep up with the arms race when websites designed something new that acts like a pop up and is a lot harder to block. And even then, an ad blocker, which some browsers implement does some of the legwork

The title to me implied the initial blocks had been removed which seemed odd since most browsers still offer that per page

Yes one million times! Mozilla, get on it! Or, looking at the current landscape of browsers, someone with some free time please implement it in a firefox fork :(

I for one dont see these pop ups; I just block all javascipt in websites using noScript and unblock just the absolutely necessary stuff. Doesnt work all the time, but it works well enough for me.