anyone who puts one of these obnoxious popovers on their site should be beaten with a nerf bat until they never do it again
especially if it is the first thing that greets you. "thanks for reading" bitch i haven't even started

dragon warrior iii for the game boy color describes me as "stubborn", and i'm tempted to agree with that assessment
co-owner tcrf.net. i run an old forum, jul.
i've been around the internet since '01.
i generally feel like the internet
peaked somewhere around '07.
private: @xkeeper-PLUS
18+: @xkeeper-TI
plural / some kind of digital therian thing.
still discovering myself.
all of this is new to me.
anyone who puts one of these obnoxious popovers on their site should be beaten with a nerf bat until they never do it again
especially if it is the first thing that greets you. "thanks for reading" bitch i haven't even started
the "good" news is that Aftermath also doesn't include the actual article body in the page DOM unless you're signed in so it's not like the popover is actually covering up any useful information
A nerf bat is too good for someone who makes it that intrustive
have noped out of several interesting things that were hosted on substack because of this
This feels like a byproduct of enshittification. Web 2.0's just going to keep getting worse until something gets done about it, but I wish I knew what...
Ad-supported funding doesn’t work and potentially never worked. How do you suggest sites like this stay afloat?
Yeah I can dispute the value of another Take on AI but assuming some hypothetical guy is writing something worth reading to begin with gating it behind a paywall seems fair? The obnoxious cutesy shit where you're partway through reading and then some stupid animation starts dancing around in your face merits charging the platform a fee for your wasted time though. Final ruling: fart