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by arielhn 3543 days ago
Small nitpicking here, but the moment it popup a modal dialog asking me to enter my email for some kind of subscription I simply close the tab. I do this since three months ago for any unknown website I visit.

Such nuisance for what might be a good read.
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teh_klev 3543 days ago
Shame...you could've just dismissed the popup and not missed out on an interesting article, it's same energy expended but with a nett gain instead of your loss. A small price to pay for BackBlaze willing to share interesting stuff like this and hardly the most egregious examples of this type of thing. Also these types of complaints have been done to death here over the years and are really, really tedious. Please complain to BackBlaze instead of trying to take this thread off-topic.
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arielhn 3543 days ago
First of all, I was on a public transport when I click on that link, my 'consuming' experience already not optimal from the point of view of readership. Many technical people, like I do, are busy people with short tolerance on things that detract from what I'm supposed to read or comprehend. Unless I can just read right there right away, I'm just going to skip to the next tab.

Secondly, I noticed that this is a trend right now; where you get to a page and after a few seconds a dialog just thrown into your face with little disregard to you (the reader) is trying to concentrate to read the content. To me that is rude, you don't go to a bookstore while reading the table of content a salesman grab that book from you and tell you "would you like me to take your email address so that we can notify you when we have new books available?" without wondering what kind of establishment that allow this kind of behavior.

Third, I got the link from HN it was easier for me to go back to this tab, login, hit reply than registering a disqus account and then enter a comment there.

With that said, I dont want to blog about this on Medium or whatever, I dont need clicks by moaning about every little things, this is my way of protesting on what I perceive is happening right now and that's why I start with "small nitpicking".

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jlarocco 3543 days ago
On the contrary, those popups are a really stupid and annoying trend, and I think it's good people voice their dissatisfaction with them.

Without people leaving the sites and complaining on places like HN, web designers will have no feedback that it's such a stupid idea.

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CamperBob2 3543 days ago
Shame...you could've just dismissed the popup and not missed out on an interesting article

But I don't know that until I've already given up the goods, do I? This approach to life, the universe, and the Internet simply doesn't scale.

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djsumdog 3543 days ago
Yea, I already run uBlock Origin. I don't mind mailing list popups. The authors should make sure someone gets at least 50% through the page before showing them. I have a feeling that will get a high click through rate ... err...sign up rate.

I hate ads. I block all of them. But I will help your crowd-funding or Pateron or buy some swag to help you promote your thing.

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