google chrome pop up blocker not working

It’s not news that websites are rife with ads these days. You could miss out on some of Chrome’s cool settings and suffer a terrible web browsing experience as a result. That’s not just because it’s Google’s web browser but due to its many helpful features and functions. I'm sure this is related to our GPO but I thought with what we had configured it would still allow flexibility for the user to add in individual exclusions.Google Chrome has grown to become one of those apps that must be on every computer and smart device.

It's not greyed out or anything but it just seems like we can't choose it. By default, the radio button next to 'Continue blocking' is selected but we cannot seem to choose the other radio button to allow the pop-ups. In the Chrome address bar, we can see the icon for the blocked pop-up and when clicking on it, it shows us the dialog box to 'Always allow pop-ups and redirects from' as well as 'Continue blocking'. Today a user brought to our attention a website not on that list that was getting popups blocked.

Additionally, we've also configured the GPO for 'Allow pops on these sites' to include a list of approved business related sites and that is functioning correctly. We've set the GPO for 'Default popups setting' to Enabled which turns on the pop-up blocker in Chrome but prevents the user from turning it off. The goal was to ensure that a user could not completely turn off the pop-up blocker thus disabling it for all sites, but rather keep it enabled and allow the user to selectively add in legitimate sites with pop-ups. Using the Google Chrome administrative templates, we've set two GPOs related to the pop-up blocker in an effort to better manage it.

Google chrome pop up blocker not working