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That may have been true whenever you last evaluated your choice, but I find that today, on-load modals are mostly burned into the HTML. With Javascript disabled, rather than not being there, they're instead always there, impossible to get rid of.
> With Javascript disabled, rather than not being there, they're instead always there, impossible to get rid of. Inspect element -> remove Browsers should really add "remove element" directly to the context menu.
Agreed. I also would like a browser that would let me automatically disable any element with a z-index greater than 1.