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I searched a startup name in a seperate tab, came back and had an inescapable subscribe screen. If your going to attempt to hold the rest of the article hostag
by jonfw 7y ago
I searched a startup name in a seperate tab, came back and had an inescapable subscribe screen.
If your going to attempt to hold the rest of the article hostage pending a subscription to your newsletter, at least let me get interested first. This is both hostile and ineffective- and unsurprisingly is the most amusing part of the website
- sp332 7y agoFirefox is working on a JS popup blocker. They're collecting data now, use https://github.com/ehsan/popup-reporter https://github.com/ehsan/popup-reporter to report sites.
- musicale 7y agoYes!! It's time for browsers/users to fight back against this madness. We all blocked pop-ups for a reason: they are obnoxious interruptions that interfere with web browsing. Unfortunately site designers learned the wrong lesson from, thinking "oh, I guess that means we need to come up with a sneakier way of forcing obnoxious pop-ups on users that don't want them."
- arberavdullahu 7y agoI wrote a nonexistent email to escape
- shaftway 7y agoAhhh, good ol' god@heaven.mil
- mattmcegg 7y agothe X is there in the top right, it's just white on white background.
- neonate 7y agohttp://archive.is/7q806 http://archive.is/7q806
- nimvlaj30 7y agoI know this isn't an option for everyone, but I've been loving browsing the internet with Javascript off on Safari. I also have Firefox with Javascript turned on, in case I need to browse a website I trust with Javascript.
- jonfw 7y agoThis comment sparked my interest and I looked into it, ended up disabling js by default on my browser! Thanks for the tip. I use Qutebrowser, which has really handy keyboard shortcuts I can use to either temporarily or permanently whitelist sites to run javascript.