> DON'T POP A NEWSLETTER FORM OVER THE TEXT I AM TRYING TO READ.

I'm running NoScript in default deny all JS here - I read the whole article without ever realizing there was a "newsletter form" until after I saw your comment above.

Websites behaviour like this led me to use toggles for js and images which are disabled by default.

If a click on a link of an article, I might actually want to read the article and not having stuff pop in my face or the content jumping around when the stock photo in the header has finally loaded.

...or you could use an adblocker - they block more than just ads (at least the good ones do).

Mine didn't work on this site. Most newsletter popups are home grown and adblockers don't work on them.

I just ignore them and try not to visit the site again if possible. (well done marketing geniuses! Was that your goal?)

Options are limited on Mobile. But, pre-warned, I'll open this in Pocket, which avoids this.

If Firefox had an "open directly to Reader Mode" I'd use that virtually always.

abp didn't block this one. ublock may have tho, but in my experience even that lets through many of these by default