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Perhaps you have an extension that alters it somehow? There's a working close button at the top right.

http://i.imgur.com/ufH3khH.png

Just use NoScript, no more newsletter shenanigans.

I usually just do a whois on the domain and put the admin contact email in. If that's already signed up, then retry using their nameservers' domain.

The modal box does have a close button.

Perhaps your ad blocker is blocking the close button.

So it is. Which is one of the uglier fuck-you behaviors a company can pull.

(I make any web work I do work with or without an adblocker, because I don't own their browser.)

It's taller than my fucking screen!

http://i.imgur.com/UrS04Xw.png

The DOM chain to that button is `#colorbox #cboxContent #cboxClose`. What part of that looks designed to intentionally trigger an ad blocker so you can't close it? They didn't "pull" anything. It's blocked because the CDN they host their static images on has the word "ad" in the domain (static.adziff.com -- named after their company, Ziff Davis); that's called a false positive.