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I happened to click a link that took me to the associated ~~twitter~~ X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it's nothing new. I've got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What's the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you've encountered recently?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That can cause the page to fail to load in some instances.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Some specific websites might need tweaking but from anecdotal evidence about 90% of websites work just fine. YMMV though because I don't visit twitter

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A number of the more tech savvy online newspapers have begun enforcing client-side scripts as a means of preventing people from reading articles without a subscription.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

And they get to deal with a combo of NoScript and UBlock origin from my Librewolf instance. If I really can't get in, I'm going to HackerNews