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My feeling is that someone misunderstood the idea that "you only have [N] seconds to make a first impression".
IMO, the very idea of a "nag screen" when you are about to leave a site is flawed. If the site is interesting enough to me, I will look for a link to a registration page. If it is not, no amount of "nagware" will motivate me to do so.
Nagging me before I've even had a chance to get an impression of the site is no way to give me a good impression.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Worked for me!
Nigerian prince depositing $2 million in my bank account as we speak.
Silly you.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I liken it to aggressive pan-handling.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Chris Maunder wrote: You know - I do think I'll type in my email address as I leave the site and look elsewhere.
Nope.
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The Firefox add-on "Bypass Paywalls" has been doing a wonderful job for me for national journals like WashPost and NYTimes, but it doesn't work with my local journal - and this local journal seems to now be putting every article under a paywall.  And the owner is a guy that I had voted for Governor years ago when he had run! 
Before I got this add-on, I used the technique with WashPost of "refresh & stop loading", which with careful timing would work. Another technique is to download the page, and then just read through the HTML file, LOL, although obviously that can be a PITA.
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swampwiz wrote: then just read through the HTML file
And here I was thinking I was the only one who did that.
I also fire up Dev tools and just delete the blocking overlay.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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hosts file.
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm trying to work out the value proposition for actually putting in your details on a site that hasn't demonstrated any value (you've been there a whole 5 seconds!)
I'm working out the freedom to bomb that idea 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I usually put in someone else's email.
Got any good spam recently, Chris 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Ah, that explains what happened 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yes, of course!
These websites obviously have some good stuff to offer me and they make it easy for me to subscribe to the even better stuff for subscribers only.
I never doubt their intentions so I can safely leave them my name and email address as I can be certain they won't abuse or sell it.
Even better when they ask for my credit card information, as the stuff must be really good if I have to pay for it!
Having subscribed, I sleep a little easier knowing I'll never miss out on new content from somerandomblog.com!
All in all, I can say the internet is a great place full of great people and companies who have my best interest at heart!
Not even Tim Berners-Lee could've dreamed his invention would bring out the best in all these people.
Too bad governments are corrupt and only think about themselves and harass heroes like Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and Jess Bezos, who do their best to bring us even more great content, driven by a purely altruistic motive!
I say, more power to the internet!
Make ad-blockers illegal!
Away with lawmakers and their "privacy laws"!
More power to Facebook, Amazon and Google!
Wake up sheeple, it's time we stood up and fight for a single online identity, accessible to all!
Also, you can either agree with me or be wrong and Epstein didn't kill himself[^] 
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I bet you are bleeding from having bitten your tongue so hard . .
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Has anyone (and you can remain nameless, except we'd see your username, but we won't judge) ever, ever been on a page, gone to leave said page, had the pop-up appear and thought "You know - I do think I'll type in my email address as I leave the site and look elsewhere. This will only take a moment and will be well worth my time".
My wife did that  and now gets loads of mails that I keep trying to unsubscribe her from but it's a losing battle.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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My "favorite" is the new cookie permissions popup. I just had one with dozens of settings, even using a tabbed dialog to get to them. Fortunately, there was a deny all button.
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Oh yeah. The classic "designed by an engineer" solution.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Am I evil if I sometimes subscribe with their Marketing departments e-mail address?
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I don't like being constantly hammered with banner messages at the top of a web page. Yes, I know my browser is out-of-date. no, i don't want to upgrade it. And stop with the forced legal; requirements to inform me about cookies on this site already! And stop hiding the content of the article I came to read by another huge banner that appears everytime I scroll-down and vanishes if I try to scroll-up.
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You're asking the wrong species.
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The ones that get me is where you are directed there from somewhere else and it either:
a) pops up that "we want you" popup - desperation in action?
b) content hidden till you register - why direct me to a site I cannot see?
Welcome to the 21st century - better get used to neo-marketing.
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I accept all offers pop up ads and will send any requested information
EXCEPT the email address is a I-hate-ads@EZO.net
and the phone number is a burner phone I never turn on
as for my location PICK a city any city
Zip Code is the same as above or 92328
But here is my latest What the Elephant
MS has been updating my MS Security Essentials for Windows 7 for a year now and
the other day they wanted to update Net Core 3.1.14 and then Net Core 3.1.12
Why offer these updates when I have Net Core 3.1.15 installed
Are updates NOT cumulative ?
the updates FAILED so I opened a support ticket not something I normally do
after a nice support engineer and an hour on the phone they only explanation was
Would you like Windows 10 FREE we do not know why you are getting updates
So my question was Why does MS Security Essentials say you system is being protected ?
They know I am running Widows 7 How about a POP UP that is meaningful
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Max Oazo - Supergirl (Original Mix)[^]
Found this chill dance cover of Reamonn's hit from 2000.
I can't really say a lot about it, except that I liked the original, but love this remix.
I can say I've mainly listened to the extended mix, but the only video I found was with beautiful women in small bikini's.
It's safe enough for YouTube, but I won't post it here to keep it SFW
A welcome change to the metal I've been listening for the past weeks!
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Oh man, that's nice.
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I should listen to Fischerspooner more often!
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