> From TFA: "Since I’m a technical person, I tried to simply remove the modal in the browser Inspector. It sort of worked, but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page."

You need to not only remove the modal, but remove the "overflow:hidden;" in the <body> tag. After that you should be able to scroll.

I have CSS/JS injectors that do this for me already, I really fucking hate popups and scrolling impediments of any sort.