All things considered, possibly not precisely a relic of times gone by, but rather Google will take action against locales that are utilizing them, and they'll be breaking down hard. This is nothing unexpected given their most recent declaration that site ordering will now move towards versatile first.
Versatile locales that keep on using popups unreliably (or interstitials, as Google calls them) may feel the full brunt of calculation's outrage. A huge drop in positioning may help them alter their opinions.
Everything Google does is accomplished for clients. To be perfectly honest, versatile popups are the most noticeably awful development since… well, popups all in all, and I, for one, can hardly wait until we are freed of them. They are totally un-traversable on a little screen, obstruct, now and again, the whole screen without giving you a simple choice to expel them – and are irritating!
According to Google declaration, this change can be normal on January 10, 2017.
In any case, not everybody will be influenced, lamentably. Google trusts that there are in actuality locales that utilization popups dependably (I wholeheartedly deviate) so they are setting out some foundation.