Online Privacy and Security
Whether you browse the Web with a computer or with Droid X, there are potential security and privacy dangers out there—cookies, pop-ups, and malicious websites. So the Droid X browser, just like its big brother browsers on computers, includes the tools you need to keep you safe and protect your privacy when you browse the Web.
Pop-up Blocker
What’s top on your list of web annoyances? Most likely at the pinnacle are pop-ups and pop-unders—ugly little windows and ads that either take an in-your-face stance by popping up over your browser so that you have to pay attention, or pop under your browser so that you don’t notice they’re there until you close a browser window, and then demand your attention.
Sometimes these pop-ups and pop-unders are malicious, and if you tap them they attempt to install dangerous software or send you to a malicious website. Sometimes they’re merely annoying ads. Sometimes, though, they may actually be useful, like a pop-up that shows a seating chart when you’re visiting a ticket-buying site. The Droid X browser includes a pop-up blocker, and like all pop-up blockers it can’t necessarily distinguish between bad pop-ups and pop-unders and good ones, so it blocks them all.
However, if you’re on a website that uses pop-ups that you want to see, you can turn off the pop-up blocker. Press the Menu key, select More→Settings, and then tap the green checkbox next to “Block pop-up windows”. When you leave the site and want pop-ups blocked again, ...
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