[forgotmypw17]

Touché.

I guess I should clarify that in the rare case I still want to access the content, I still do not engage with the modal dialogs, but instead use a proxy service such as archive.is to present it in an accessible way.

I consider modals to be a gross accessibility issue.

[nyanpasu64]

I'd use archive.is if it didn't have a CAPTCHA system and stalk users by injecting fingerprinting into served pages.

[PaulHoule]

I went through a phase when I was reading way too much about communism and riding shotgun back and forth to Buffalo a lot while stoned and resolved I was going to quit reading the web with a normal web browser but instead I was going to run everything through a workflow system that would convert web sites to HAR files, strip out all the ads and bullshit.

I worked on it pretty seriously for two weeks but got hung up on the problem that my web archiving system was never 100% sure that a page had finished loading (that there would be more significant AJAX calls) so it would set long timeouts and even with a lot of stripping out the junk it was going to be even more awkward than dealing with the junk.

Looking back at it however it looked like an overly ambitious project.