These sorts of comments are discouraged on HN as per the guidelines. Link at the bottom of the page.

I also find this unreadable but for a different reason. I'm on mobile and it's rendering unreadably small. On the one hand maybe I should put more time into my setup. On the other hand maybe we, the target audience of this sort of content should comment when the format is unusable. If your power users find mailing list popups annoying to the point they go elsewhere don't you want to know? Isn't a comment on hacker news a great way for someone to learn what their readers like or don't like?

Like the guidelines say:

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

If the author isn't actually present (which, as far as I can tell, they are not) it just clutters up the comments. There's no actual discussion happening here, just a lot of "wow i sure don't like this thing [website] does" and that doesn't provide very much value at all.

I'd say this is very thoughtful and rational, and if I was the owner of the site in question, I would be thankful for poweruser comments.

NoScript on Firefox solves that problem. Yes it breaks a lot of pages, but then you get to fiddle about allowing and banning different scripts to see what's doing what. Probably not for everyone but I like the educational value.

[Edit] So that pop-up is coming from mailchimp_com, which is called by list-manage_com, which in turn is called by s3amazonaws_com. So blocking that last one is all you need.

In fact this is quite a great web site, as it displays all its content even if you completely disable all scripts.

Works great with JS off. For power user I suggest a browser that let's you easily whitelist JS for the websites you need.(I use Vivaldi)

I can't read it on mobile because the site fails to add a basic viewport meta tag.

FWIW I am browsing with Firefox with "Strict" privacy settings and didn't get any popup.

It's funny I won't accept those "cookies" so I've gotten used to part of SO's screen real estate being taken. Or on a Ubuntu page I do F12/kill the popup... can put that in some kind of extension but ehh...

Kill Sticky bookmarklet is your friend.

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

Since I was invoking this on nearly every page I made it automatic: https://lee-phillips.org/nomorecookiewarnings/

Thank you so much!

Just like you, I don't want to interact with cookie warnings at all so they have been annoying me to no end.

I even tried writing my own bookmarklet to hide them by setting "display: none" on these elements. But it sometimes fails on Stackoverflow sites, and I didn't look into it further.

This is just what I need, thanks again!

I'm glad you found this useful. But it doesn't work on every site nor on every cookie warning. On some of those sites you can get rid of it by switching off javascript.

uBlock Orgin

Is there a rule to block modals like this? I can add site-specific things, but I can't seem to find anything that blocks all overlays.

You want to enable the "annoyance" lists. In this case it was caught by "Fanboy's Annoyance List" for me.

The developer is pretty well respected. Click the X on the newsletter and there is great content.

I had the exact same reaction. Do we have a tl;dr equivalent for these things?

pu;dr ?