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Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by blackfawn » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 5:59 AM UTC

bowmessage wrote: post #10

cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

you can always type in anyone@anywhere.com and it isn't verified.

I wonder if using an address @nationalgeographic.com (e.g. support) might illuminate to them how foolish this is...

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by 3dee » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 6:25 AM UTC

bowmessage wrote: post #10

cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

you can always type in anyone@anywhere.com and it isn't verified.

Don't make up domain names for this. Always use example.com

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by dawnerd » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 6:27 AM UTC

cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

I personally just use support@ emails. There's a good chance it opens up a support ticket and slightly annoys someone. you could also use caprivacy@twdc.com to really tick them off.

It's sad Disney has to stoop this low.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by achow » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 6:43 AM UTC

bowmessage wrote: post #10

cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

you can always type in anyone@anywhere.com and it isn't verified.

Why it has to be meaningful words? Why not qwqeeq@qqekqe.com? :-)

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by dheera » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 6:53 AM UTC

cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

Just hit F12 and paste this into the console when they ask for it

    document.querySelector('.Modal').remove();
    document.body.classList.remove('Scroll--locked');
    document.body.style.overflow="scroll";
    document.body.style.position="static";

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by bigiain » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 7:19 AM UTC

genocidicbunny wrote: post #6

cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

If you disable Javascript, it seems to still load the full article, and doesn't break formatting.

I'll give an annoying popup/paywalled page one chance by trying reader mode, which often works. I'm extremely rarely motivated enough to bother trying any harder than that to read an article the publisher is actively working against me being able to read.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by PetitPrince » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 7:19 AM UTC

cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

I can't even dismiss the modal:

> "Sorry, this campaign is not available in your area"

Then why in the seven seas do you even produce the blasted popup ?

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by TeMPOraL » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 7:29 AM UTC

blackfawn wrote: post #21

bowmessage wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can always type in anyone@anywhere.com and it isn't verified.

I wonder if using an address @nationalgeographic.com (e.g. support) might illuminate to them how foolish this is...

Yeah, I tend to do support@[target domain] if a site gets too annoying with their popups.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by CaliforniaKarl » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 7:34 AM UTC

cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

I understand the annoyance, but I really hope the parent comment does not remain the top comment on this post. I hope that would be related to the content, not the issues around its presentation.

For anyone who needs it, both the source material and an alternate link have been posted as top-level comments.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by Zardoz84 » Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 7:56 AM UTC

cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

What email popup ?

... perhaps you are using some browser that isn't Firefox and/or you not have uBlock installed ?