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Comment by freezing_coffe | Hacker News Reader

Ohh, how nice it is to be greeted with a subscription modal

I've got a couple of extensions on Firefox on Android, which make browsing bearable. But whenever I take out my iPad, I want to put it away. Large parts of the web are extremely annoying to me due to the ads, paywalls, popups, modals, cookie warnings, fingerprinting and what have you.

What do you use besides ublock origin?

"I don't care about cookies" extension, and Dark Reader. I've donated to both of them, multiple times. Well worth it.

Upon request, the creator of the "I don't care about cookies" extension will provide you with a receipt. That way you can write off your donation as a business expense or be reimbursed.

uMatrix and Stylus help.

Reader mode and https://outline.com

How annoying, I thought the age of obnoxious pop up ads was behind us, but they have reappeared in a big way. I fail to understand the reasoning behind why designers would want them.

I don't think designers want them. The data probably shows that it increases conversions or whatever metric, so the product owners and business pushes the designers to jam in the dark ux patterns.

And they're infuriatingly hard to block as well. But I suppose a single conversion is worth 10,000 annoyed visitors.

Unfortunately, it's because they still work. The designer may not want them, but the marketers do.

Ohh, how nice it is to see this comment on every single article with a subscription modal.

Hey, I wanted to read the article but I couldn't make the subscription ad disappear from my phone. They lost a reader right there.

They didn't lose a paying reader.

Can't get a paying reading if I can't even get through the front door.

How do websites even convert people to subscribers ...

The Literary Review has to make an income somehow. Close it out and carry on.

do we know whether the nag popups work well though?

Yes, time and again people working in such sites and doing testing have said that they work greatly...

Yeup. I previously worked for a company that developed this type of product in their suite and I was able to see the data across lots of brands and industries. It really works.

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