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There should have been an X at the top right corner. Also, do you have reader mode on your device? That would fix it too.
by frogpelt 7y ago
There should have been an X at the top right corner.
Also, do you have reader mode on your device? That would fix it too.
- deadbunny 7y agoOr you know, people could not put popovers on blogs.
- sneak 7y agoWith the advent of RSS going by the wayside, email has become the sole reliable method of doing non-invasive push notifications. I wish it weren’t so, but collecting emails was the personal advice of someone highly regarded by both myself and HN so it’s what I do—with an apology in the modal itself.
- ilammy 7y agoI don’t really remember popups ‘please add our feed to your RSS reader’, instead there was a link to add the feed which took exactly enough screen space.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoIt was terrible advice.
- TheRealPomax 7y agoIf you're not browsing with an adblocker installed, then this complaint is basically moot: it's 2019, the ad-free internet died years ago; use a decent adblocker. If they show up even with that active, though, now you have a valid complaint.
- tambourine_man 7y agoOr you can use sensible alerts and ads. Good taste hasn't died and never will. And there was never effectively an “ad-free internet”, if by internet you mean Web. We had ads on the Web in 1994.
- gknoy 7y agoWhile this is common on desktop, do you have suggestions for how to do this on mobile?
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoFirefox mobile supports extensions, including ublock origin (and umatrix, if you're into that).
- jolmg 7y agoI have uBlock Origin on, and the popup did appear. Maybe it wasn't an ad. I don't really know because I closed it reflexively.
- mgalgs 7y agoIt was some kind of mailing list solicitation from the author (I actually didn't even bother reading it, just frantically closed it as quickly as possible), so not blocked by an ad blocker. I'm running ad blockers and pihole and I still saw it.