[mildbow]

Pop-ups are really taking over the internet. Again. I'm all for optimizing/growth-hacking/whathaveyous, but when it detracts from the reading experience then maybe you've gone too far?

This page had social share buttons on the side, intercom(?) looking button, and a popup to give them my email all orchestrated to fade-in/pop-in before I had a chance to really dig into the article. And now I wont.

[pmoriarty]

I never ever see popups. I do 90% of my browsing in emacs, using emacs-w3m in text mode, so don't see images (except when I manually choose to view them) and emacs-w3m does not support javascript. It works very well for the majority of websites out there.

For those sites that are broken without javascript, and which I absolutely must use, I use Firefox with the NoScript and Request Policy extensions (though I'm migrating to Pale Moon because Pentadactyl is going to break on newer versions of Firefox) and Privoxy for ad blocking. For the few sites that don't work with Firefox, I use Opera, again with Privoxy for ad blocking.

As a result, 99% of the time, the only ads I ever see are text-based, and only when embedded directly in the page I'm reading.

[hornbaker]

Same. Was really annoying, and I closed the tab without reading the article.

[vorticalbox]

Might because I am on mobile (edge windows phone) but I got social links floating on the bottom. No pop up though.

[danaseverson]

Really appreciate the pointed feedback. Making adjustments ATM to improve the experience.

[echlebek]

My browser asked me if your site could send me push notifications, and I feel like that's probably not necessary.