Agreed. They’ve disabled reader mode, too. Took one look at that mess and decided I didn’t care enough to even try tapping the deliberately minuscule X buttons.

I’m at the point where I am so done with disrespectful websites that I’m willing to forgo information I’d otherwise care about just so I don’t have to engage with them.

Three popups on desktop, one of which collapses into a large, persistent "chat" bubble in the upper left of the window.

Not to judge a book by its cover, but this certainly doesn't speak well for the level of care put into this project.

Three popups for me on mobile Firefox. Closed the tab after that.

The web is so fucking awful these days.

Same on Safari. That's not how one should do it in 2021…

Welp, I'll just skip the article then.

I cannot help but feel overwhelmed by the craptacular pixels being thrown at me. I closed the site immediately and likely will not return.

I thought everyone on HN had uBlock Origin installed with scripts disabled? I just see (desktop FF 92.0) a pleasantly organized page.

I agree it's horrible with scripts enabled though!