its horrible i know, only appears once per IP - i use it cause it converts well. Probably not from this audience but Twitter is my main source of traffic and it converts around 10% from that traffic
Could you set up the popover to not display if the referrer is HN?
Good idea, wish I knew the code to do that. thinking about disabling it all togther...
Removed it completely..
the pop-over turned me away
That, and the affiliate links.
I share the same love/hate relationship with PayPal but the referrer links made the entire article stink of blogspam to me (even though I understand that wasn't the intention, it still "felt" like it to me).