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For people who do not use a browser made by an advertising company:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind_the_ov...

90% of the time I just close the tab, if the content I want isn't immediately visible without jumping through hoops. If the content is hidden by a newsletter popup, the percentage is 100.

Also a shameless plug for the extensible, amalgamated hosts file I actively curate:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

I have a much simpler trick for this. As the page loads, if you start hitting Esc repeatedly really fast just at the right moment, when the content is loaded, but the overlay is not, or a little bit earlier, it might work too. Not always though.

Edit: If you miss it, just hit F5, and try again. It’s a good game.

If you use ublock origin you can usually just right click and block the element and peel it off layer by layer.