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Yeah, I turn on Reader mode in Safari for every sub stack site I wander in to.

I wonder why popups are some kind of web design go-to these days? Don't they get feedback from users that we hate these annoying things?

NoScript[1] & Kill Sticky[2] are mandatory for browsing the modern web.

[1] https://noscript.net/

[2] https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

> Don't they get feedback from users that we hate these annoying things?

I suspect they don't care.

A/B testing doesn’t expose the hate.

I simply closed the tab. That's too hostile and annoying and I don't want to be treated like this.

Substack could be the Medium replacement we all seek, but this pop up proves it isn't that. It should "just" add the publisher to a sidebar. I don't pay attention to my email either. This just creates more Internet Exhaust.