Annoying Facebook comments pop-out - how to prevent it?

[Riley Blue]

Since the weekend, whenever I've clicked on 'Comments' in FB, rather than expanding the drop-down thread a new pop-out window appears containing the comments.

It's a real PITA which I can't find a way to prevent. Any ideas?

[i4got]

Riley Blue said:

Since the weekend, whenever I've clicked on 'Comments' in FB, rather than expanding the drop-down thread a new pop-out window appears containing the comments.

It's a real PITA which I can't find a way to prevent. Any ideas?

Can't help, but I've noticed the same and it is bloody annoying. Watching.

[Riley Blue]

I can't believe no one else finds these new feature annoying. Doesn't anyone else on PH (still) use FB?

[otolith]

I think everyone has accepted that the FB UI sucks and just sighs when they break it again with some pointless change.

[droopsnoot]

Yes, that's been annoying me too. Along with 99% of the rest of the FB "choices" - randomly picking whether I see "most relevant", "top comments" or "all comments" being high on the list. Too many to list, now I come to think about it.

[Richard-390a0]

otolith said:

I think everyone has accepted that the FB UI sucks and just sighs when they break it again with some pointless change.

Pretty much sums it up for me!

[somouk]

Riley Blue said:

Since the weekend, whenever I've clicked on 'Comments' in FB, rather than expanding the drop-down thread a new pop-out window appears containing the comments.

It's a real PITA which I can't find a way to prevent. Any ideas?

Does look like a code change on their side and not sure there will be an option to disable it.

[Riley Blue]

Here's where I've found some advice though I've yet to try it: https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/stop-facebook-co...

[babelfish]

Riley Blue said:

Here's where I've found some advice though I've yet to try it: https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/stop-facebook-co...

[Riley Blue]

I'm not getting that alert, has anyone else tried it?

[droopsnoot]

Riley Blue said:

I'm not getting that alert, has anyone else tried it?

I've tried it and don't get that, though I do get a pop-up asking for a donation, and then another asking for something else.

First option seems to be to open the post directly by clicking on it, which is going it interrupt the reading sequence even worse than the current pop-up thing does - at least when you close the pop-up, it goes back to where you were, which is usually impossible when you've clicked onto another post or mistakenly clicked on someone's profile when a hover window appears unexpectedly.

Most of the rest seem to be to read FB on a mobile, or make it think you're on a mobile, I haven't tried those. UI is poor enough when I can see what I'm doing.

[Riley Blue]

You've confirmed what I'm seeing on that site.

I've now tried making FB think you're on a mobile; it stops the pop-up but it's like going back to the dawn of time in UI terms

[somouk]

babelfish said:

Likely that your ISP or company routes traffic through umbrella which is a DNS based protection system.

[deckster]

I like the new pop-out thread style. Keeps the main page much neater.