If your going to attempt to hold the rest of the article hostage pending a subscription to your newsletter, at least let me get interested first. This is both hostile and ineffective- and unsurprisingly is the most amusing part of the website
We all blocked pop-ups for a reason: they are obnoxious interruptions that interfere with web browsing.
Unfortunately site designers learned the wrong lesson from, thinking "oh, I guess that means we need to come up with a sneakier way of forcing obnoxious pop-ups on users that don't want them."
I also have Firefox with Javascript turned on, in case I need to browse a website I trust with Javascript.
I use Qutebrowser, which has really handy keyboard shortcuts I can use to either temporarily or permanently whitelist sites to run javascript.