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Don’t these reference pop ups that appear in new windows? I assume the OP here is talking about the large overlays that appear over content after you’ve scrolled about 15% or been on the site for 2 minutes.

Yep, that's it

Hey! I'm refering to the overalys/modals that obstruct the content of the page when they are visible. I dont think you can bypass those, at least not without going mad.

Note: prefer uBlock Origin over getadblock since it's FOSS

uBlock does not block them. For exmaple, you can go to nike.com with uBlock on and still see these annoying popups.

Because you haven't enabled any additional lists, I have, I do not see any popups.