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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by 14 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:38AM (#29315159)
The article was interesting but what struck me the most was how the website only asked me to subscribe at the very end of the article. So sick am I of showing up to a website and almost immediately get hit with a subscription pop up. “Want more stories like this one?! Subscribe today”. I haven’t even had 2 seconds to read the story how can I know if I want more like this one. I will never give my info to a site like that. But this site asks at the end when I had a chance to assess if I like the writing style and content. Well done.
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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by Arnavion on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:37AM (#29316092)
Since we're being meta, I will note that the website does in fact put up a popup telling me to "Please enable JavaScript!" that obscures the whole page. Amusingly the popup is translucent and I can see the content of the page behind it rendering just fine, so clearly JS is not needed for it.
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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by JetSetWilly on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @05:08AM (#29316216)
That's where the "kill sticky headers" smart bookmark comes in handy: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by Arnavion on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @03:26PM (#29322979)
Those bookmarks rely on JS.

I hope you can see the problem.

(I can DevTools the popup away myself, or switch to Reader mode, or just close the tab. No JS-executing bookmarks needed.)

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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by JetSetWilly on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:10PM (#29323583)
Ah you are not using noscript but have JS actually disabled in the browser? Hardcore. I would tend to just use noscript but still use smart bookmarks, much easier to just mash a button than mess about with DevTools.
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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @05:38AM (#29316343)
I opened it up in a separate tab (I use tabs like a reading list), and when I got to this article the popup was right there, that was my first experience of the site. So I'm guessing it's on a timer?
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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by cabalamat on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @05:59AM (#29316441)
I got a "disable your adblocker" message, so I just read it on Reader mode.
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Re:First partial skull of Homo Naledi child sheds light on e... by vorticalbox on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:21AM (#29316974)
I just got the Google we use cookies at the top and nothing else.
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