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Medium has been pissing me off with a push to sign up and the "Pardon the interruption." popup spam. Good god, no I don't want a medium account and will not wa

by urda 8y ago

Medium has been pissing me off with a push to sign up and the "Pardon the interruption." popup spam. Good god, no I don't want a medium account and will not want a medium account thank you.

jacquesm 8y ago
The hilarious part about that is that when medium launched everybody was falling over themselves to say how this was the future of blogging because of the pretty fonts and the lack of annoying screen real estate consuming extras. That popup is a monstrosity.
- urda 8y ago
  Honestly medium can't die fast enough IMO.
_asummers 8y ago
Don't forget about when it asks you to share the highlighted text! I've disabled that with some Chrome extension, thankfully, but haven't figured out the popup yet.
- ohtwenty 8y ago
  God, I hate that highlighted text, because it's always some faux-deep quote that just pisses me off. Like I might have appreciated it if it weren't for that stupid highlighting making it look like it's a teenager stopping halfway through a presentation to look at you and make sure that you caught he said something intelligent. I get irrationally angry at that highlighting. BTW ublock origin might be able to block the popup, if you right click -> block element
- iaml 8y ago
  Disabling JS gets rid of this and popup. Add in a display:none for the leftover sticky footer, and you can finally read in peace.
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toomanybeersies 8y ago
I would understand if the popup appeared once, after 5 articles. But the fact that it's every article I read is just infuriating. I have literally no reason to sign up to Medium. I've been too lazy to block the popup, but I think I will next time it appears.
- Vinnl 8y ago
  Mozilla is experimenting with a way to automatically block such pop-ups, and you can help them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-up-reporter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-u...

by urda 8y ago

Medium has been pissing me off with a push to sign up and the "Pardon the interruption." popup spam. Good god, no I don't want a medium account and will not want a medium account thank you.

jacquesm 8y ago

The hilarious part about that is that when medium launched everybody was falling over themselves to say how this was the future of blogging because of the pretty fonts and the lack of annoying screen real estate consuming extras. That popup is a monstrosity.

urda 8y ago
Honestly medium can't die fast enough IMO.

_asummers 8y ago

Don't forget about when it asks you to share the highlighted text! I've disabled that with some Chrome extension, thankfully, but haven't figured out the popup yet.

ohtwenty 8y ago
God, I hate that highlighted text, because it's always some faux-deep quote that just pisses me off. Like I might have appreciated it if it weren't for that stupid highlighting making it look like it's a teenager stopping halfway through a presentation to look at you and make sure that you caught he said something intelligent. I get irrationally angry at that highlighting. BTW ublock origin might be able to block the popup, if you right click -> block element
iaml 8y ago
Disabling JS gets rid of this and popup. Add in a display:none for the leftover sticky footer, and you can finally read in peace.

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toomanybeersies 8y ago

I would understand if the popup appeared once, after 5 articles. But the fact that it's every article I read is just infuriating. I have literally no reason to sign up to Medium. I've been too lazy to block the popup, but I think I will next time it appears.

Vinnl 8y ago
Mozilla is experimenting with a way to automatically block such pop-ups, and you can help them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-up-reporter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-u...