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National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic ar
by cjones26 6y ago
National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.
- genocidicbunny 6y agoIf you disable Javascript, it seems to still load the full article, and doesn't break formatting.
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- nawgz 6y agoPlus if you're decent with the inspector, you can usually remove the paywall and then if the body doesn't scroll find the Event Listener for `onscroll` and kill that; it almost always is just a simple fn preventing scroll events
- mrb 6y agoOn this National Geographics page, in the inspector just select the <body> and in the CSS pane remove the "position: fixed" and "overflow: hidden". This allows scrolling.
- bigiain 6y agoI'll give an annoying popup/paywalled page one chance by trying reader mode, which often works. I'm extremely rarely motivated enough to bother trying any harder than that to read an article the publisher is actively working against me being able to read.
- genocidicbunny 6y agoI didn't even consider reader mode to be honest. I've been using the disable-javascript thing for so long it's become the automatic go-to when I get such popups.
- bowmessage 6y agoyou can always type in anyone@anywhere.com and it isn't verified.
- dkdk8283 6y agoor <vulgar>@<vulgar.tld>
- xfilesfan 6y agoAwesome trick. Thanks!
- blackfawn 6y agoI wonder if using an address @nationalgeographic.com (e.g. support) might illuminate to them how foolish this is...
- TeMPOraL 6y agoYeah, I tend to do support@[target domain] if a site gets too annoying with their popups.
- 3dee 6y agoDon't make up domain names for this. Always use example.com
- achow 6y agoWhy it has to be meaningful words? Why not qwqeeq@qqekqe.com? :-)
- fartcannon 6y agoUblock origin + lightning bolt!
- reachtarunhere 6y agoI am sorry but is lightning bolt some extension?
- black_puppydog 6y agono it's the "quick picker" or "zapping mode" of ublock origin. very handy!
- perryizgr8 6y agoIt is an element zapper built into ublock origin. Useful for permanently getting rid of annoying pop up dialogs.
- cobalt 6y agohttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fck-overlays/ppedokobpbdajgiejhnjfbdjlgobcpkp?hl=fr https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fck-overlays/ppedo... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ffck-overlays/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ffck-overlays...
- voiper1 6y agoI'm using Bypass Paywalls specifically for this.
- danmur 6y agoI just came here to complain about that! It's the most obnoxious popup, ffs at least show it at the start so I don't waste my time on 1/5 of an article.
- dawnerd 6y agoI personally just use support@ emails. There's a good chance it opens up a support ticket and slightly annoys someone. you could also use caprivacy@twdc.com to really tick them off. It's sad Disney has to stoop this low.
- dheera 6y agoJust hit F12 and paste this into the console when they ask for it document.querySelector('.Modal').remove(); document.body.classList.remove('Scroll--locked'); document.body.style.overflow="scroll"; document.body.style.position="static";
- HPsquared 6y agoNice. I've been finding myself using the F12 tools more and more recently to tweak websites I use often - say to change the background colour or font. Not a web dev, but it's fun to look under the hood and play about with things.
- PetitPrince 6y agoI can't even dismiss the modal: > "Sorry, this campaign is not available in your area" Then why in the seven seas do you even produce the blasted popup ?
- CaliforniaKarl 6y agoI understand the annoyance, but I really hope the parent comment does not remain the top comment on this post. I hope that would be related to the content, not the issues around its presentation. For anyone who needs it, both the source material and an alternate link have been posted as top-level comments.
- willis936 6y agoA better OP would be just the source material. HN could take a page out of r/science's book in this regard and just outright ban secondary sources.
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- Zardoz84 6y agoWhat email popup ? ... perhaps you are using some browser that isn't Firefox and/or you not have uBlock installed ?
- willvarfar 6y agoTangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years. I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration. Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust. Still miss what I remember of the 'good old days'.
- Fricken 6y agoMy Grandmother had a subscription to the mag going back to the mid 1960s, I read all of them, and it enriched my childhood. The online experience has always sucked, but in different ways over the years.
- chadcmulligan 6y agoI subscribed to the iPad version for a while, it was beautiful imho, though this was a few years ago.
- peanutz454 6y ago20 Yrs ago my brother bought 2 years worth of magazines from the kabadi bazar* in India it was a treasure trove. I was thinking of subscribing a few days back but based on what people are saying here I am wondering if I should buy old stuff from ebay instead. * You sell old newspaper and magazines by the kilo in India for recycling, sometimes they make their way to a huge market where people are selling old stuff in a huge market called Kabadi bazar think of it like a pawn shops fair every Sunday.
- pomian 6y agoGreat idea to find old ones. They were often very interesting and much less political.
- jfk13 6y agoAgree entirely. I dropped my subscription around the same time as you, by the sound of it.
- holoduke 6y agoI don't see the popu. But I do see an advertisement every 1.5 screens I scroll down. Extremely annoying. Article itself isn't bad though
- Spare_account 6y agoThis kind of comment chain helps me remember how amazing uBlock Origin is. I don't see the popup or the inline adverts, and uBlock just works without breaking the site. Amazing. It just works so well, in fact, that I forget it is there at all, and I am glad to occasionally get these reminders.
- CPLX 6y agoJust press reader view.
- emmelaich 6y agohttps://archive.is/bJlRf#selection-5253.84-5253.107 https://archive.is/bJlRf#selection-5253.84-5253.107
- hnnnnnnng 6y agoJust type a random email in the box. This is basic debugging knowledge.
- bakedbeanz 6y agoHow is providing a fake email "debugging"... ?
- u801e 6y agoI just use a random user and a domain that resolves to local host. I'm not sure how their MTA will deal with it though.
- ASpaceCowboi 6y ago>.> I wrote: whoeversethisupgof**yourself@gmail.com and it worked! :)
- puppable 6y agoAs it turns out, "signing up" with "fuck.off@eat.shit.com" worked just fine for me. ... With apologies to whoever owns shit.com.
- envp 6y agoI use ublock origin and disable javascript for the session.
- thesmok 6y agoA lot of websites do that, the Kill Sticky button always saves me https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
- loco5niner 6y agohttps://10minutemail.net/ https://10minutemail.net/