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This article seems like it would be very interesting to me but after dismissing three intrusive popups in my mobile browser I stopped trying to read it.

Does anyone know of a mobile browser friendly way to read this kind of site without being constantly bombarded? It's exhausting. It seems like the sort of problem that would have been solved, but my attempts to discover the solution have failed.

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The 'Kill Sticky' plugin for Firefox works pretty well for me for most stuff. Most popups darken the screen, though, and it doesn't handle that. It's very useful to me nonetheless. If you don't use Firefox, you can go their site and copy/paste it to your bookmarks.

On android: fennec(firefox fork) + uBlockOrogin, NoScript, PrivacyBadger and Decentraleyes.

I only had de reject all cookies prompt.

With firefox you can aldo use the reade mode, that extracts the main taxt and displays it plainly.

Firefox+uBlock is enough to make it readable on Android

There's just a cookie prompt and then a newsletter sign-up a little later? I don't think there's any constant bombardment, if there is for you I'm interested to know more.

I dismissed 3 overlays.

1. cookies 2. email newsletter 3. cookies again

The constant bombardment was more in reference to the state of the web generally. Popups and overlays that aren't a result of an interaction I've chosen to make are exhausting for me (and people with ADHD generally, and many others). I don't go back to sites that have them, but would be happy to read (and often pay for) the content if that wasn't the context.

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