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"Summer sale" popup, "subscribe now". Tab closed. I wonder who makes that sort of decision is webland, harassing the first time visitor is /bound/ to work...

• monknomo 11y ago
  They have a sales funnel that you fell out of. It's a really common, and apparently effective type of funnel. By whatever measures they are using, they're probably better off without you. I also miss the old web, where articles were just text dominating a page, but it seems to be dying. I have devoted some thought to what to do about it, but I've come up dry so far
  • stephengillie 11y ago
    Sorry for continuing the off-topic discussion with an unpopular suggestion, but without that site whitelisted for Javascript, it was only a webpage dominated by article.
  • code_chimp 11y ago
    Once you closed all of the X-10 pop-ups.
  • WalterBright 11y ago
    I write simple pages like that, but then I get lambasted for "archaic" web pages :-)
• coldpie 11y ago
  Funny, I just saw the article. NoScript improves the web yet again.
  • tertius 11y ago
    * kills.
• teh_klev 11y ago
  ""Summer sale" popup, "subscribe now"". Closed pop up, read free article, became informed. Same effort, your loss.
  • buserror 11y ago
    close popup, tell them you're not a bot and the tracking cookie belongs to someone human. Ka-ching. close tab without clicking anywhere, you don't tell them that, and they can't really discriminate the user from a bot, and their 'effort' a tracking you failed (or at least, is less reliable)
  • grkvlt 11y ago
    Closed pop up, read free article, became informed, read further free articles, beacme intrigued, wanted more, remembered subscription offer, seached for information, decideed to subscribe. More effort, but I will have a series of print magazines full of enjoyable and informative articles delivered soon. Definately GPs loss!