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Holy crap, MIT, I had to close out three popups to read the article. That’s with ad blockers turned on.

I’m surprised by how organizations lend their name to such terrible user experiences.

Not to defend MIT, but as I got zero with my blockers (uBo + uMatrix + FF tracking protection), maybe it’s time for an upgrade? ;) Might of course also be another reason.

Thanks. I’m on mobile safari so a bit of a pain to upgrade.

This is a rare experience for me, so I’m still calling out MIT for being at best thoughtless.

AdGuard is your best friend on iOS. FOSS software that blocks all ads. I read this article on my iPad with safari. No ads, no pop up.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...

Check out the wipr plugin. It does a pretty good job of blocking popups and ads on ios safari.

Tested with Firefox, Privacy Badger, and NoScript - zero popups, zero ads.

MIT contributes tremendously to military technology. It's the primary purpose. I'd be concerned for that reputational and moral hazard such that the the UX challenges of a blog wouldn't even register.

Even Chomsky couldn't make it out clean and got sucked into state actor trouble.

MIT's entire reputation was _made_ by the military. It was a no name school before the contracts of WWII/The Cold War, e.g. the prominent radar lab https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Radiation_Laboratory

Four pop-ups for me.

I got another one from an add as well.

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