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Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by cjones26 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:06AM (#26965453)
National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by willvarfar on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:05AM (#26966927)
Tangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years.

I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration.

Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust.

Still miss what I remember of the 'good old days'.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by Fricken on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:58AM (#26967624)
My Grandmother had a subscription to the mag going back to the mid 1960s, I read all of them, and it enriched my childhood. The online experience has always sucked, but in different ways over the years.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by peanutz454 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:09PM (#26975393)
20 Yrs ago my brother bought 2 years worth of magazines from the kabadi bazar* in India it was a treasure trove. I was thinking of subscribing a few days back but based on what people are saying here I am wondering if I should buy old stuff from ebay instead.

* You sell old newspaper and magazines by the kilo in India for recycling, sometimes they make their way to a huge market where people are selling old stuff in a huge market called Kabadi bazar think of it like a pawn shops fair every Sunday.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by pomian on Thursday April 29, 2021 @09:11PM (#26988821)
Great idea to find old ones. They were often very interesting and much less political.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by chadcmulligan on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:32AM (#26968595)
I subscribed to the iPad version for a while, it was beautiful imho, though this was a few years ago.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by andrepd on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:00AM (#26967950)
What?? I had no idea they were bought by Murdoch.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by ceejayoz on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:21AM (#26968097)
They're not, at least not now. The TV arm used to be part of 21st Century Fox from 2015-2017, but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Partners

Disney owns 73%. The National Geographic Society owns 27%.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by galangalalgol on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:54AM (#26967918)
I remember it becoming more and more about environmental issues, when Murdoch bought it did they change?
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by Loughla on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:52AM (#26968748)
I've had a subscription for decades - I can't see a shift toward what I genuinely expected when Murdoch bought it. Yes, they focus more on US issues than in the past, but I have to assume that is where their market is. But environmental issues and nature conservation are still very prominent in the publication.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by jfk13 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:13AM (#26967698)
Agree entirely. I dropped my subscription around the same time as you, by the sound of it.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by LightG on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:13AM (#26968041)
Thanks for the heads up ... didn't know that and will act accordingly.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by ceejayoz on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:24AM (#26968119)
Verify the claim first. (It's not true.)
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by willvarfar on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:45AM (#26968260)
Rupert Murdoch owns 21st Century Fox, which brought the magazine in 2015 for $725M.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by ceejayoz on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:46AM (#26968269)
Disney bought 21st Century Fox from Murdoch two years later.

His ownership was very brief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fo...

No need to cancel a subscription over old news.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by willvarfar on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:00AM (#26968349)
So the money raised by the sale of magazines now goes to research and exploration again?
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by ceejayoz on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:04AM (#26968376)
The National Geographic Society still exists, yes, and makes money off the partnership with Disney. Their current programs are listed at https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/programs/.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by meragrin_ on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:31AM (#26969122)
Is there any proof it ever stopped?
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by acheron on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:14AM (#26968933)
If you're boycotting something based on false rumors you read on an Internet forum, I'm not sure how you buy anything.

Hey, I heard that Kim Jong-un bought out all the world's watermelon farms, so every time you buy a watermelon you're contributing to the oppression of North Koreans!

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by LightG on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:51AM (#26970032)
That's a lot of words to say: "the OP is incorrect". But I appreciate your concern.

And, so there is some factual outcome or use to this thread, I'd like to add that I'm looking forward to Murdoch rotting in actual, or metaphorical, hell.

You're welcome.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by johncessna on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:39AM (#26969884)
The OP isn't boycotting anything, he's signalling.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by meragrin_ on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:30AM (#26969111)
> Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust.

Is there any proof of the funding part? I find it hard to believe they would partner with Fox for years before forming the joint venture, not get anything out of the partnership, and then form a joint venture and get even less.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by dawnerd on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:27AM (#26966336)
I personally just use support@ emails. There's a good chance it opens up a support ticket and slightly annoys someone. you could also use [email protected] to really tick them off.

It's sad Disney has to stoop this low.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by HPsquared on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:56AM (#26966877)
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by dawnerd on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:02AM (#26966911)
Yep! But really if you want to stick it to them just look at their contact or privacy policy and you should get a real email.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by kuschku on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:27AM (#26967056)
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by dheera on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:53AM (#26966501)
Just hit F12 and paste this into the console when they ask for it

    document.querySelector('.Modal').remove();
    document.body.classList.remove('Scroll--locked');
    document.body.style.overflow="scroll";
    document.body.style.position="static";
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by HPsquared on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:58AM (#26966888)
Nice. I've been finding myself using the F12 tools more and more recently to tweak websites I use often - say to change the background colour or font. Not a web dev, but it's fun to look under the hood and play about with things.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by PetitPrince on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:19AM (#26966666)
I can't even dismiss the modal:

> "Sorry, this campaign is not available in your area"

Then why in the seven seas do you even produce the blasted popup ?

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by varjag on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:34AM (#26967094)
It's different teams doing the popup and running the campaign.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by mszcz on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:46AM (#26967880)
Yeah, somehow I rarely come across the correct order of those. For me, it's usually "agree to cookies" or other nonsense first and then "region-go-fuck-yourself" kind of stuff.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by danmur on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:54AM (#26966114)
I just came here to complain about that! It's the most obnoxious popup, ffs at least show it at the start so I don't waste my time on 1/5 of an article.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by fartcannon on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:18AM (#26965863)
Ublock origin + lightning bolt!
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by cobalt on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:09AM (#26966957)
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by reachtarunhere on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:45AM (#26966059)
I am sorry but is lightning bolt some extension?
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by perryizgr8 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:50AM (#26966092)
It is an element zapper built into ublock origin. Useful for permanently getting rid of annoying pop up dialogs.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by black_puppydog on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:49AM (#26966084)
no it's the "quick picker" or "zapping mode" of ublock origin. very handy!
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by voiper1 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:51AM (#26967909)
I'm using Bypass Paywalls specifically for this.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by puppable on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:34PM (#26972548)
As it turns out, "signing up" with "[email protected]" worked just fine for me.

... With apologies to whoever owns shit.com.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by CPLX on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:03AM (#26967279)
Just press reader view.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by CaliforniaKarl on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:34AM (#26966754)
I understand the annoyance, but I really hope the parent comment does not remain the top comment on this post. I hope that would be related to the content, not the issues around its presentation.

For anyone who needs it, both the source material and an alternate link have been posted as top-level comments.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by willis936 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:46AM (#26969291)
A better OP would be just the source material. HN could take a page out of r/science's book in this regard and just outright ban secondary sources.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by genocidicbunny on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:12AM (#26965496)
If you disable Javascript, it seems to still load the full article, and doesn't break formatting.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by bigiain on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:19AM (#26966660)
I'll give an annoying popup/paywalled page one chance by trying reader mode, which often works. I'm extremely rarely motivated enough to bother trying any harder than that to read an article the publisher is actively working against me being able to read.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by genocidicbunny on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:01AM (#26967639)
I didn't even consider reader mode to be honest. I've been using the disable-javascript thing for so long it's become the automatic go-to when I get such popups.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by nawgz on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:47AM (#26965706)
Plus if you're decent with the inspector, you can usually remove the paywall and then if the body doesn't scroll find the Event Listener for `onscroll` and kill that; it almost always is just a simple fn preventing scroll events
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by mrb on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:10AM (#26965814)
On this National Geographics page, in the inspector just select the <body> and in the CSS pane remove the "position: fixed" and "overflow: hidden". This allows scrolling.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by thesmok on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:41AM (#26992645)
A lot of websites do that, the Kill Sticky button always saves me https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by bowmessage on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:02AM (#26965779)
you can always type in [email protected] and it isn't verified.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by blackfawn on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:59AM (#26966144)
I wonder if using an address @nationalgeographic.com (e.g. support) might illuminate to them how foolish this is...
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by TeMPOraL on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:29AM (#26966716)
Yeah, I tend to do support@[target domain] if a site gets too annoying with their popups.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by 3dee on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:25AM (#26966319)
Don't make up domain names for this. Always use example.com
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by achow on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:43AM (#26966437)
Why it has to be meaningful words? Why not [email protected]? :-)
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by dkdk8283 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:20AM (#26965878)
or <vulgar>@<vulgar.tld>
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by xfilesfan on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:35AM (#26965979)
Awesome trick. Thanks!
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by emmelaich on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:33AM (#26967488)
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by holoduke on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:12AM (#26966971)
I don't see the popu. But I do see an advertisement every 1.5 screens I scroll down. Extremely annoying. Article itself isn't bad though
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by Spare_account on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:42AM (#26967536)
This kind of comment chain helps me remember how amazing uBlock Origin is. I don't see the popup or the inline adverts, and uBlock just works without breaking the site. Amazing.

It just works so well, in fact, that I forget it is there at all, and I am glad to occasionally get these reminders.

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by loco5niner on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:05AM (#26994380)
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by u801e on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:22AM (#26969689)
I just use a random user and a domain that resolves to local host. I'm not sure how their MTA will deal with it though.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by hnnnnnnng on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:07AM (#26968873)
Just type a random email in the box. This is basic debugging knowledge.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by bakedbeanz on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:15AM (#26968961)
How is providing a fake email "debugging"... ?
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by envp on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:15AM (#26981440)
I use ublock origin and disable javascript for the session.
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by ASpaceCowboi on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:31PM (#26971246)
>.>

I wrote: whoeversethisupgof**[email protected]

and it worked! :)

Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland by Zardoz84 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:56AM (#26966872)
What email popup ?

... perhaps you are using some browser that isn't Firefox and/or you not have uBlock installed ?