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Off topic but still related:

When opening this nautil.us page, it turns out to be one of the MANY websites that show a modal javascript "popup" after a few seconds of reading the article.

We're back to the year 1999 with the popups.

I found no plugin for firefox that blocks those (and only those plus EU cookie warnings, I want other JS to run). Does anyone know one? What is the correct word to search for (it's not really a popup)?

Thanks!

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It looks like Fanboy's Annoyance List [1] would have blocked it with this rule:

    nautil.us###adpayload

There's a checkbox in uBlock Origin's settings dashboard to enable this list.

https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/

Thanks! Helps against the nautilus one. Not at "yesmagazine.org" unfortunately :)

I wonder how possible it is to make something more advanced that blocks these things programmatically by detecting the behaviour (rectangular thing in center modally popping on top of large amount of text).

What about the "reader view", either the one of iOS either Pocket or Evernote?

There is also the "reader view" of Firefox. This is present on all Firefox browsers so it works on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows and Android.

More info at: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...

PS: This is not the pocket thing.

I'd be interested in exploring the heuristics and techniques involved in finding that out.

e.g. this identifies the popup wrappers on nautilus and yesmagazine:

    [].filter.call(document.body.childNodes, node => 
      node.nodeType === 1 && getComputedStyle(node).position === 'fixed'
    )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage

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