[wmkn]

This might have been a nice article to read. But after reading just the first paragraph I got unclosable overlay advertisements blocking out 80% of the screen making it impossible to continue reading.

Seeing this more and more often nowadays. No matter how good the article, if I cannot read it I won’t stick around.

[drcongo]

I made this Tumblr [0] seven years ago. I have been closing the tab every time it happens for a very long time now.

Edit: Just to add, these days I have two content blockers + ninja-cookie installed in Safari and my network routed through a PiHole which does DNS lookups via NextDNS so I barely ever see these kind of intrusions any more.

https://tabcloseddidntread.com

[drdec]

Totally accidentally I discovered that the close button for the overlay was off screen to the right.

At least that was my experience on Firefox on Android.

[michaelanckaert]

Yeah I closed the article after that display of user hostility. How can anyone think that’s a good idea to add to their website?