There should have been an X at the top right corner.
Also, do you have reader mode on your device? That would fix it too.
Also, do you have reader mode on your device? That would fix it too.
I wish it weren’t so, but collecting emails was the personal advice of someone highly regarded by both myself and HN so it’s what I do—with an apology in the modal itself.
If they show up even with that active, though, now you have a valid complaint.
Good taste hasn't died and never will.
And there was never effectively an “ad-free internet”, if by internet you mean Web. We had ads on the Web in 1994.