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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by croemer on Friday January 02, 2026 @10:17AM (#46465564)
On mobile it is actually worse than the (now locked) thread suggests where it is merely covering 5% of screen area. On mobile the popup takes up more than 50% of screen area for me as it's by default opened up all the way.

Thinking about making a new thread to ask it to be taken down for good.

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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by ashf023 on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:16PM (#46469450)
I looked out of curiosity and on my 15 inch laptop screen it does take up probably about 40%. I'm surprised by how egregious it is. And it looks like they changed it (or there's an A/B test?) since the thread. It also now jokes about how banners are cringe, actually taking up more space!
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by croemer on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:51PM (#46480144)
The initial thread showed only the second "minimized" version of the 2 step process (Maximized -> Minimized -> Dismissed). Here's the banner code which looks heavily LLM coded to me: https://web.archive.org/web/20251211092050js_/https://donate...
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