I agree, the badge and comment pop-ups are useful, yes, but when I'm not logged in (which seems to be most of the time as Chrome on Linux simply cannot remember

I agree, the badge and comment pop-ups are useful, yes, but when I'm not logged in (which seems to be most of the time as Chrome on Linux simply cannot remember me (cookies enabled)) the "hello guest" pop-ups are just unnecessary. However the "Welcome back [user], click to refresh" is incredibly useful, because of my cookie issue.