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They also recently removed the option to close the 'Open in App' nag so it overlays all the time

This is super annoying. Medium has been the worst so far in my opinion (top bar and open in app below take a lot of screen real estate)

Reddit finally got me to stop visiting by badgering at every opportunity to use the app.

LinkedIn is coming close for me.

I've been using RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) to view reddit on firefox for a long while, didn't realize there was a reddit app.

There's a toggle to make them stop asking that in the settings, but getting rid of Reddit is better than turning that on, so kudos :)

The medium nag-badge has got me to do the same thing. i don't click links on HN anymore if they are going to a medium blog.

hopefully we aren't the only ones being annoyed by this, if those badges are effective they aren't going away any time soon.

As someone who's had to implement one of those nagging popups(and argue with marketing 'growth hackers' about it) I can tell they are unfortunately effective, and it's more likely to see more of them in future.

Everyone is annoyed, but many of those who are annoyed will just follow the instructions and increase the metric of whoever wanted those .

Medium has been pissing me off with a push to sign up and the "Pardon the interruption." popup spam.

Good god, no I don't want a medium account and will not want a medium account thank you.

The hilarious part about that is that when medium launched everybody was falling over themselves to say how this was the future of blogging because of the pretty fonts and the lack of annoying screen real estate consuming extras.

That popup is a monstrosity.

Honestly medium can't die fast enough IMO.

Don't forget about when it asks you to share the highlighted text! I've disabled that with some Chrome extension, thankfully, but haven't figured out the popup yet.

God, I hate that highlighted text, because it's always some faux-deep quote that just pisses me off. Like I might have appreciated it if it weren't for that stupid highlighting making it look like it's a teenager stopping halfway through a presentation to look at you and make sure that you caught he said something intelligent.

I get irrationally angry at that highlighting. BTW ublock origin might be able to block the popup, if you right click -> block element

Disabling JS gets rid of this and popup. Add in a display:none for the leftover sticky footer, and you can finally read in peace.

I would understand if the popup appeared once, after 5 articles. But the fact that it's every article I read is just infuriating. I have literally no reason to sign up to Medium.

I've been too lazy to block the popup, but I think I will next time it appears.

Mozilla is experimenting with a way to automatically block such pop-ups, and you can help them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-u...

> They also recently removed the option to close the 'Open in App' nag so it overlays all the time

Please check out my [1]filterlist project for uBlock Origin, you may find it useful.

[1]https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances

Yeah, I stopped using imgur on mobile when they released the new mobile site. Completely destroyed the experience plus it flogs my battery. No ty.

That definitely hurts my experience as well. I even tried having the app installed for a bit, but that shoved stuff on the screen I didn't want as well. I guess they are under business pressure to show you more than the content in order to make money...

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