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Opens website Gets instant popup covering the content asking me to sign up Closes website

• kozhevnikov 6y ago
  If you are using uBlock Origin or similar you can enable 'Annoyances' filter lists (off by default) that take care of many overlays, cookie popups, etc.
  • pc86 6y ago
    Even better, you can just leave websites that do this. I have no interest in helping anyone beef up their numbers by hanging around longer if they're going to be outright hostile to their readers/users like this.
• aabbcc1241 6y ago
  My browser doesn't run javascript by default, and the website is not an webapp, so it appear to be fine
  • halfFact 6y ago
    Would you run a web app? Checking my strategy to avoid Apple's app store.
    • stan_rogers 6y ago
      The meaning there was that the web page is a web page with content pre-installed and everything, as opposed to an enormous but content-free javascript container that then does a lot of unnecessary work on your machine to fetch the content, piece by piece, and assemble and render the content that should have been assembled at the server before sending it to you.
• cdolan 6y ago
  For real though, does ANYONE instantly sign up on the first visit to a website? Why does anyone continue to think this is a good idea? I immediately closed the article as well.
• LockAndLol 6y ago
  It's quite unreadable on mobile too, unfortunately. I'm not sure you're not missing out.