How to limit the number of iterations done by setInterval

Question

I display video ads to my users. I don\'t host these ads by the way; I get them from another company.

When ever an ad is clicked it leaves a cookie in the user\'s b

Answer 1

Passing a Callback to the Interval Function, which in turn updates a counter in the global scope:

var countIntervals = 0,
    intervalFunc = function(_callback){

        console.log(countIntervals);

        if(countIntervals > 5) {            
            clearInterval(setIntervalVar);
        } else {
            // do stuff
            _callback();
        }
    };

setIntervalVar = setInterval(intervalFunc.bind(null, function(){
    countIntervals++;
}), 500);