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I hate the pages that wait a couple seconds for you to scroll down and start reading, then they have a banner ad at the top that auto-expands, which makes the spot you are reading scroll down, then after you have re-scrolled to compensate, the banner ad auto-collapses to make the spot you are reading scroll back up so you have to re-re-scroll to re-compensate.

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I auto-pilot CTRL+W those sites, there isn't even a decision process. The only answer is, "Well, this is going away now."

In a similar vein are sites with modals, which pop as soon as you start scrolling, that attempt to extort your e-mail address to continue reading. They don't provide a way to close the modal via a button or the ESC key. Those are rage-inducing to me. Who the fuck thinks that is a good idea? That's a sure-fire way to make sure I will never click a link to the same domain again.

edit/ Editing this to say, I used to just fill in some bogus e-mail address like "gofuck@yourself.com" but have realized that it justifies the behavior more than it sends a message.

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