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Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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

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Post by Spare_account »

holoduke wrote: post #36
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 don't see the popu. But I do see an advertisement every 1.5 screens I scroll down. Extremely annoying. Article itself isn't bad though

This kind of comment chain helps me remember how amazing uBlock Origin is. I don't see the popup or the inline adverts, and uBlock just works without breaking the site. Amazing.

It just works so well, in fact, that I forget it is there at all, and I am glad to occasionally get these reminders.

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

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Post by Fricken »

willvarfar wrote: post #34
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.

Tangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years. I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration. Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust. Still miss…

My Grandmother had a subscription to the mag going back to the mid 1960s, I read all of them, and it enriched my childhood. The online experience has always sucked, but in different ways over the years.

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

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Post by Fricken »

elseweather wrote: post #16

I wish the article had more photos - from the one it looks like it could be an awesome rock climbing area

When I was a kid the magazine was all about the photos. Online NatGeo doesn't get it. They're not getting my email address either.

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

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Post by genocidicbunny »

bigiain wrote: post #26
genocidicbunny wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I didn't even consider reader mode to be honest. I've been using the disable-javascript thing for so long it's become the automatic go-to when I get such popups.

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

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Post by jfk13 »

willvarfar wrote: post #34
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.

Tangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years. I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration. Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust. Still miss…

Agree entirely. I dropped my subscription around the same time as you, by the sound of it.

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

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Post by mszcz »

varjag wrote: post #38
PetitPrince wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ?

It's different teams doing the popup and running the campaign.

Yeah, somehow I rarely come across the correct order of those. For me, it's usually "agree to cookies" or other nonsense first and then "region-go-fuck-yourself" kind of stuff.

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

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Post by voiper1 »

fartcannon wrote: post #12
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.

Ublock origin + lightning bolt!

I'm using Bypass Paywalls specifically for this.

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

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Post by galangalalgol »

willvarfar wrote: post #34
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.

Tangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years. I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration. Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust. Still miss…

I remember it becoming more and more about environmental issues, when Murdoch bought it did they change?

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

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Post by andrepd »

willvarfar wrote: post #34
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.

Tangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years. I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration. Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust. Still miss…

What?? I had no idea they were bought by Murdoch.
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