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Oh man, I see that all the time. Mouse leaves the window and I get a fullscreen ad begging me to sign up. Half the time, I'm still reading the damn article, I
by SamBam 10y ago
Oh man, I see that all the time. Mouse leaves the window and I get a fullscreen ad begging me to sign up.
Half the time, I'm still reading the damn article, I was just playing with the mouse. Now I have to find your hidden Close button to keep reading. Go to hell, marketers.
- ryandrake 10y agoYea I see the "subscribe to our newsletter popup before I even get a chance to read anything" pattern all the time. This is the first time I've seen it actually wait and trigger on my taking an action to close the site. I mean, I guess that's kind of better than doing it just as I've read 3 words into a 3000 word article...
- kossae 10y agoFWIW, the Esc key normally gets rid of these. Regardless, it is such an annoying marketing trick. Who knows... it must still provide a positive ROI if so many sites are still using it, unfortunately.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoThe esc key is about 50/50 for me, at best. I usually find that the back button is more effective.
- rangersanger 10y agocmd+w tends to work well. As for ROI, as a former ecomm product manager I can tell you that our marketing department's reasoning for requesting the feature was not based on ROI, rather, herd mentality. And, once a feature is there, it's extremely difficult to remove.
- cholantesh 10y agoYou also have to love how snarky those ads are. "Yes, I want to drown in spam." "No thanks, I'm a total scumbag!"