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Never and then I format my computer. 
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I always sign up, with the email address popups.are.bad.ux@example.com. Hopefully that annoys them at least a little.
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that is arguably the most annoying thing on the web at the moment. every single website you happen to go to wants to send you notifications.
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Agreed. And the whole load of 'em can elephant off as well.
But ... that's not the most annoying thing - that place remains with the GDPR-compliance "accept cookies" pop-up/-under/-over/-behind 
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I disagree, I find it more annoying than the accept cookies popup.
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I think, gee, does anybody actually put their email address in there?, ever? 
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Also hate the "notifications", "location" and other popups. I have more trouble on phone, because on my FF I have most of that s*** blocked anyway.
Sites that don't allow me to use the AdBlocker are blacklisted from the start.
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Yes, f#%k off this pops up!
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I have seen websites which put this request at the end of the article and leave it to the user to decide whether they want to sign up or not.
Much less intrusive.
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Not just annoying....Really Really annoying. I loose all your concentration while reading and to be honest, I wouldn't want to continue on the site. 
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You're right. The moment a site shows me a popup, I close it no matter how interesting the topic might seem to be.
Shameel,
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I usually use the inspect element option to get rid html node of the popup. Sometimes if the websites don't work properly, I use a burner email to register.
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...you get first a cookie-popup - close *click*, then maybe even cookie choices - show *click*, if you are lucky with an "opt-out-all" button, but in many cases you need to disable them one-by-one *clickediclickedcklickediclickiclick*... then chrome shows its popup "this site wants to send notifications" -> decline *click*, then... MAYBE finally the content of the site, and 3 seconds later the email-popup appears... oh no... wait! first the popup "please disable your adblocker" - *click*... THEN maybe the register/email thing... **CLLLLIIIIICKKKKKKK** *mouse button breaks* *rage-quit*
I rarely can stand this mess long enough to even SEE that email-popup because I closed the site already before.
in fact, the EU destroyed the internet almost entirely for me. I have 2 news-sites that are still accessible and some dev-sites, like CP, SO, ...
I do not use websites anymore. It's just a pain and at the end-of-life for me.
either you receive a bombardement of ads, or popups or cookie-nightmare... the free internet is dying, just like free-tv.
Glad, I only need SO in my job and at home I almost entirely stopped all internet activities, except gaming. Steam, Battlenet... Accessing online resources through apps, yes. But in the browser? Not anymore. That's almost gone.
I never had, and never will use those "social" napworks like twitter, facebook, insta and-how-they-are-all-named. I am blessed with a natural immunity against those. Lucky me.
Cheers!
modified 16-Sep-19 4:57am.
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This is why you should use a javascript switcher plugin. It's just one click and you can read the article without any more harassment.
If you just want the information, which is usually the case for me, then you wont need javascript. The better plugins are tab based, so it wont affect other sites such as youtube or gmail. So it's a life changer, really...
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Do you have examples of such add-ins? Something to test?
Nevermind... Javascript Switcher was enough of a search term for me - found one in chrome web store.
Quite good... per default it's enabled and with one click I can stop it
The extension remembers all domains where I turned it off.
Thank you a-thousand-and-one time for this hint 
modified 16-Sep-19 5:12am.
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Your welcome, I'm glad I could help. The one I use currently is called Quick Javascript Switcher.
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Yes i installed exactly that one.
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If you like the "old style" internet, then just click "Accept All" and you will get the same version you used to have... when they did everything you are accepting anyway, they just didn't tell you about it.
I tend to give sites one click chance. Preferably "decline all" but I don't mind "accept" if I am interested in the content, if I get a second pop-up then I leave the site.
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I rarely get such popups, as I block scripting.
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I generally try to make sites work without JS enabled. But some modules require it, for example, a calendar to filter data table. So you cannot view single-page applications, which are based on client-side JS enabled. I want to ask you, as I'm wondering, what kind of situations make you enable your JS? Trusting the website? Other? If you can answer I'd be glad. Thanks.
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To read an article - that was the original question - I usually don't need scripting enabled.
I try to interact (i.e. activate scripting) only with websites I trust, then I allow scripting selectively (e.g. yes for the hotel website, no to google analytics).
If in doubt I leave the site.
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