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Dude we had a whole web browser revolution in the early 2000s centered largely around the ability to prevent browser pop-up windows. The fact that people are doing it in the canvas now doesn't suddenly make it not incredibly obnoxious. Pop-up windows were bad design 20 years ago and they're bad design now.

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Pop-up windows that take focus over other running applications are a whole another ball game, dude. In-app popups are a pattern that may or may not be annoying, like most things used well or badly. This case seems pretty innocuous to me.

No, they are always annoying. I'm here to read an article, the only thing this pop-up window does is get in my way.

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